TY - BOOK AU - Agar,Nicholas ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Humanity's end: why we should reject radical enhancement T2 - Life and mind AV - GN281 .A33 2010 U1 - 303.48/3 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Human evolution KW - Effect of technological innovations on KW - Technological innovations KW - Social aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - "A Bradford book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index; What is radical enhancement? -- Radical enhancement and posthumanity -- The technologist : Ray Kurzweil and the law of accelerating returns -- Is uploading ourselves into machines a good bet? -- The therapist : Aubrey de Grey's strategies for engineered negligible senescence -- Who wants to live forever? -- The philosopher : Nick Bostrom on the morality of enhancement -- The sociologist : James Hughes and the many paths of moral enhancement -- A species-relativist conclusion about radical enhancement; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3339444 ER -