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??Psychology/Neurology in transhumanism??

Thesis: Development of human beings depends on ...

I.              Transhumanism and self-conciousness

1.              What are transhumanism and posthumanism?

2.              How transhumanism is presented in science fiction and literature

3.              How transhumanism is presented in science – nemocetrism

II.              Transhumanism in Accelerando

1.              The morality of trans and posthuman

a)              Natural, freedom process

b)              Bravery, courage, will

c)              Multiplicity of options

2.              Sociology of transhuman’s beings

a)              Natural competition

b)              No limits

c)              Abandonment of physicality

3.              Psychiatry and trans/posthumanism

a)              The role of the mother

b)              The role of the environment

c)              Unification, the loss of uniqueness

III.              Transhumanism in the Rifters series (Peter Watts)

1.              The morality of those selected to be transhuman – psychopaths

a)              Pressure

b)              Instinct

c)              Brutality

2.              Sociology of transhumanism

a)              Brutality, competition

b)              Fight and escape

c)              Abandonment of mind

3.              Psychiatry and trans/posthumanism

a)              The role of the parent

b)              The role of the environment

c)              Being no one – separation and loneliness

IV.              Conclusion – competition, roaring development and devolution of humans’ mind in the process of transhumanization.

Bibliography

“Rifters Trilogy” Peter Watts

“Being no one” Thomas Metzinger

“Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever” Raymond Kurzweil

„Osobliwość jest blisko: Kiedy istoty ludzkie przekroczą granice biologiczne” Raymond Kurzweil

“How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed” Raymond Kurzweil

http://humanityplus.org/

http://www.transhumanism.org/

http://karljahn.tripod.com/trans.html In Defense of Humanity: Against Transhumanism

http://www.rifters.com/ by Peter Watts

http://esensja.stopklatka.pl/ksiazka/publicystyka/tekst.html?id=7042 Dukaj, Szostak i Orbitowski o Samoświadomości u Metzignera i Wattsa

“Computing the human” N. Katherine Hayles

“The embodied compuer/user” Deborah Lupton

“Nanotechnology in the age of posthuman engineering: science fiction as science” Colin Milburn

“From cyber to hybrid: mobile technologies as interfaces of hybrid spaces” Adriana de Souza e Silva?

“A cyborg manifesto: science, technology and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century” Donna Haraway