Virtual Immortality God Evolution And The Singularity In Post And Transhumanism

Author : Oliver Krüger
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839450594
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Immortality - God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism written by Oliver Krüger and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. According to this radical perspective, humankind and all biological life have become obsolete. Traditional forms of life are inefficient at processing information and inept at crossing the high frontier: outer space. While humankind can expect to be replaced by their own artificial progeny, posthumanists assume that they will become an immortal part of a transcendent superintelligence. Krüger's award-winning study examines the historical and philosophical context of these futuristic promises by Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Frank Tipler, and other posthumanist thinkers.

Author : Kaz Hayashi
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648898009
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anime, Philosophy and Religion written by Kaz Hayashi and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anime is exploding on the worldwide stage! Anime has been a staple in Japan for decades, strongly connected to manga. So why has anime become a worldwide sensation? A cursory explanation is the explosion of online streaming services specializing in anime, like Funimation and Crunchyroll. Even more general streaming services like Netflix and Amazon have gotten in on the game. Anime is exotic to Western eyes and culture. That is one of the reasons anime has gained worldwide popularity. This strange aesthetic draws the audience in only to find it is deeper and more sophisticated than its surface appearance. Japan is an honor and shame culture. Anime provides a platform to discuss “universal” problems facing human beings. It does so in an amazing variety of ways and subgenres, and often with a sense of humor. The themes, characters, stories, plotlines, and development are often complex. This makes anime a deep well of philosophical, metaphysical, and religious ideas for analysis. International scholars are represented in this book. There is a diversity of perspectives on a diversity of anime, themes, content, and analysis. It hopes to delve deeper into the complex world of anime and demonstrate why it deserves the respect of scholars and the public alike.

Author : Oliver Schwedes
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383946451X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transport in Capitalism written by Oliver Schwedes and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport is the only sector that has not yet contributed to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. To understand why sustainable transport has not been developed yet, Oliver Schwedes highlights the special features of the transport sector and describes the political conditions for a successful change in transport development. He makes clear that technical innovations alone will not be enough; rather, transport policy must be practised as social policy.

Author : Luregn Lenggenhager
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839466393
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lower !Garib - Orange River written by Luregn Lenggenhager and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and South Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on this hardly discussed stretch of the Orange River to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy. This book brings together scholars from Namibia, South Africa, and overseas, as well as the knowledge and analysis from people living in the region. In concise chapters and short portraits, they discuss the region's past and present from a variety of perspectives.

Author : Ilona Horwath
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839463777
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Protection, Resource Efficiency, and Sustainable Engineering written by Ilona Horwath and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big societal challenges, such as climate change and public health, call for innovative approaches to address them. The contributors of this book present new ways to tackle these challenges by inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations in light weight engineering. They introduce a framework for transdisciplinary collaboration, explore the potential of light weight engineering in the areas of climate protection, resource efficiency, and sustainable mobility. To do so, they exemplify results and limitations of transdisciplinary collaboration based on three case studies: the optimization of rescue tools, the re-design of products to foster re-use and recycling processes in companies and society, and the additive manufacturing of individualized assistive tools and prostheses.

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839460441
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallerstein 2.0 written by Frank Jacob and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors address the possibilities to reread Wallerstein's theoretical thoughts and ideas that are related to different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The presented interdisciplinary approach of this anthology thereby intends to highlight the broader value of Wallerstein's ideas, even almost five decades after the famous sociologist and economic historian first expressed them.

Author : Oshrat Hochman
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383946675X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration and Integration in Israel and Beyond written by Oshrat Hochman and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration is a persistent and complex phenomenon intertwined with geographical, political, societal, and economic challenges. The number of international migrants has been continually increasing over the past five decades. The contributors to this volume dedicated to Professor Rebeca Raijman address various types of migrants like economic or labour migrants, forced migration and ethnic migrants. Implementing both qualitative and quantitative data and analyses, they provide insight on why individuals decide to migrate, how their decisions affect their own lives and the lives of their offspring, and how immigrants affect the receiving societies they arrive in.

Author : Marvin Heine
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839466431
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resonant Fabrics written by Marvin Heine and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soundscapes profoundly connect listeners to the places they inhabit and thereby reveal the vibrant and resonant fabrics that lie beneath the delineated spaces of visual representation. In Resonant Fabrics, Marvin Heine explores and celebrates the many-layered and ambiguously undulating sense- and soundscapes as they shape and are shaped by urban cultures and particular ways of listening. By examining historical documents, contemporary accounts, and original empirical material through a combination of actor-network-theory, ecology, and sound studies scholarship, he embraces, in a stylistically embodied and often poetic manner, the sonic urban world in all its fragile, ephemeral, yet deeply affective sonority.

Author : Tsypylma Darieva
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839462541
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making a Homeland written by Tsypylma Darieva and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ties to the homeland have always been a central focus of global diaspora and migration studies. How and why do the descendants of migrants maintain their attachment to the ancestral homeland? To what extent do emotional ties bind second and later generations of migrants to that place? Tsypylma Darieva examines various actors, channels and sites of transnational Armenian engagement that generate new pathways of diasporic ›roots‹ mobility. Drawing on long-term ethnographic observations in Armenia and in the USA, she examines transnational flows of people, money and ideas to show the social and political significance that roots mobility acquires when the mythical ›homeland‹ becomes a real place.

Author : David Herbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894400596
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming God written by David Herbert and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transhumanism is a growing philosophical movement among leading business leaders, scientists, artists, politicians and futurists. They believe that the future of humanity lies in a post-human world. In Becoming God, David Herbert traces the philosophic and scientific roots of this movement, through the changes brought with The Enlightenment, the Victorian era, religious humanism and secular humanism, leading to the rise of transhumanism. Profiling the key world figures in this movement-Ray Kurzweil, Aubrey de Grey, Kevin Warwick, Natasha Vita-More, Nigel Ackland, FM-2030, and others-he explores their views, both common and unique, on aspects of transhumanist philosophy. Since the dawn of time, humankind has desired to be immortal-to "be like God." This book reveals how changing worldviews, advancing technologies, entrenched scientific beliefs and rapidly expanding biotechnologies have led some to believe that immortality is on the horizon. Shunning death and disease, transhumanists are pursuing a future devoid of these realities and believe humankind is on the cusp of immortality-a pivotal moment they call the "Singularity." Having analyzed and researched this movement, Dr. Herbert shows how the Christian's hope of immortality is the resurrection, a foundational biblical truth-and one that looks to a new, imperishable, glorious and powerful body to come when Christ returns. The Christian view of the body (made in God's image), disease and death (the results of living in a sinful world) look to a future resurrection, where believers will be given perfect, immortal bodies, once more united to their souls and spirits. The Christian's hope is not for immortality on this earth but in the new heavens and new earth.