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Human Flourishing in a Technological World addresses the question of human identity and flourishing in the light of recent technological advances. The chapters in Part I provide a philosophical-theological evaluation of changing major anthropological assumptions that have guided human self-understanding from antiquity to modernity: How did we move from a religious and mostly embodied anthropology of the person to the idea that we can upload human consciousness to computing platforms? How did we come to imagine that machines can actually be intelligent, or even learn in human fashion? Moreover, what metaphysical changes explain our mostly uncritical embrace of a technological determination of being and thus of how reality "works"? In Part II, the focus turns to the practical implications of our changing understanding of what it means to be human. Covering some of the most pressing current concerns about human flourishing, these chapters deal with the impact of technology on education, healthcare, disability, leisure and the nature of work, communication, aging, death, and the nature of wisdom for human flourishing in light of evolutionary biology. The volume includes the text of a lecutre by virtual reality engineer and computer scientist Jaron Lanier, and a discussion between Lanier and other contributors.
Contents
Jens Zimmermann: Introduction
Part I: Confronting the Techno-Vision: Historical and Philosophical Analysis
1: Robert Doede: From Living Souls to Software Selves: The Movements of Enchantment Through Western Metaphysics
2: Ashley John Moyse: Oh, That We Might Learn to See Everything Differently: Interrogating a Baconian Spirit, Confessing (In)humanity
3: Jens Zimmermann: Personhood and Technology
4: Jordan Wales: The Icon and the Idol: A Christian Perspective on Sociable Robots
5: John Behr: Becoming Human in a Technological World
6: Brent Waters: Remaining Focused: Human Flourishing and the Mundane in the Emergent Technoculture
Part II: Practical Implications of Technology for Human Flourishing
7: Celia Deane-Drummond: The Evolution of Wisdom in a Technological World: An Exploration in Nature and Grace
8: Thomas Fuchs: Transhumanism, Embodied Cognition, and Psychiatry
9: Clark Elliston: Leisure in a Technological World
10: David Lewin: Education, Enhancement, and the Pursuit of the Good
11: Eleanor McLaughlin: Human Flourishing, Disability, and Technology
12: Michael Mawson: Living in the Midst of Death: Theological and Philosophical Reflections on Ageing and Identity
13: Michael Burdett: Death and Glory in a Technological World
Part III: Demystifying AI: Toward the Dignified Use of Modern Technology
14: Jaron Lanier: Personhood and Human Flourishing in a Technological World
15: Personhood, Consciousness, and Technology: A Dialogue with Jaron Lanier
