Prosthetic Immortalities

Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life

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Paperback, 352 blz. | EN
University of Minnesota Press | e druk, 2024
ISBN13: 9781517916589
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Rosenthal ultimately argues that the discovery of biological immortals—lifeforms that naturally have indefinitely long lifespans, such as cancer cells and bacteria—present novel conceptual difficulties for traditional philosophical approaches to mortality and selfhood, asking whether it is life itself that first births immortalizing prostheses.

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Aantal pagina's:352

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