Personhood in science fiction : religious and philosophical considerations /
"This book addresses the topic of personhood--who is a "person" or "human," and what rights or dignities does that include--as it has been addressed through the lens of science fiction. Chapters include discussions of consciousness and the soul, artificial intelligence, dehu...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Defining personhood in a posthuman world
- 3. Dehumanization of the "nonhuman" being
- 4. Embodied and non-bodied selves
- 5. Ethics and AI
- 6. Artificial consciousness and synthetic souls
- 7. The alien-other: monsters, mutants, and othered bodies
- 8. Free will?
- 9. Concluding thoughts.
