Advancing the Human Self: Do Technologies Make Us ?Posthuman??

Advancing the Human Self Do Technologies Make Us ?Posthuman??Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies, cognitive skills, and the next developmental stage called postpersonal? Did we already manage to be fully human, before becoming posthuman? Are we doomed to disintegration and episodic selfhood? This book examines the impact of radical technopoiesis on our selves from a multidisciplinary perspective, including the health humanities, phenomenology, the life sciences and humanoid AI (artificial intelligence) ethics.Surprisingly, our body representations show more plasticity than scholarly concepts and sociocultural narratives. Our embodied selves can withstand transplants, bionic prostheses and radical somatechnics, but to remain autonomous and authentic, our agential potentials must be strengthened ? and this is not through ?psychosurgery? and the brain?computer interface. Additional ISBNs 9783631822142, 9783631822159Advancing the Human Self: Do Technologies Make Us ?Posthuman?? 1st Edition is written by Ewa Nowak and published by Peter Lang Gmb H, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Advancing the Human Self are 9783631822135, 3631822138 and the print ISBNs are 9783631806784, 3631806787. Additional ISBNs include 9783631822142, 9783631822159.