Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense of Limits

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Index Adams, Douglas, 25–26, 107–108, 174, 197 Autobiographical memory, 6, 11, 55, 60–70, 137 Bailey, Ronald, 131–134 Banks, Ian M., 65–66, 69–70 Borg; Borg assimilation, 8–9, 31, 196 Bostrom, Nick, 19, 23, 71–75, 138 Brock, Dan, 139–140 Buchanan, Allen, xiii, 132, 139–140, 157–165, 175, 185, 202 Callahan, Daniel, 120–122 Clark, Andy, 51–53 Clarke, Arthur C., 106–107 Cohen, Eric, 39–41 Currie, Gregory, 38 Cybermen; cyberconversion, 8–9, 31, 70, 137, 196 Daniels, Norman, 139–140 Davies, Paul, 96, 107 Dawkins, Richard, 98–101 DeGrazia, David, 167–169, 174 de Grey, Aubrey, xiii, 113–135 Deliberate practice, 147, 150, 152 Deutsch, David, 98–103, 109 Douglas, Thomas, 158, 173–174, 187, 188, 190–193 Enhancement as improvement, 18–20, 139 Enhancement beyond human norms, 19–20, 139 Ericsson, Anders, 147, 153 Eugenics, 142 External goods, 28–32, 42–50, 81–84, 105–106, 109–112 Freitas, Robert, 34–35 Frigg, Roman, 90–91 Fukuyama, Francis, 138, 139, 183 Glannon, Walter, 57–61 Habermas, Jürgen, 152 Haldane, J. B. S., 98–101 Hartmann, Stephan, 90–91 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), 25–26, 107–108, 174, 197 Horner, John, 149 Hughes, James, 138, 198 Idealization, xii–xiii, 82–83, 89–112 Integration, the problem of, 47 Internal goods, 18, 28–32, 42–46, 81– 83, 97–98, 105–106, 109, 137, 156 Intrinsic vs. instrumental value, xii, 18, 26–32, 33–36, 42, 44–45, 48–50, 53, 82–83, 87, 105–111, 137, 156 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, xi, 6–14 214 Index Kass, Leon, 39–41 Kurzweil, Ray, 3–4, 15–16, 24–26, 35, 48–49, 64, 77, 147–148, 150, 154, 171, 189 Laplace’s demon, 84–87, 90–96, 98, 104, 205, 206 Levy, Neil, 51–53 MacIntyre, Alasdair, 18, 28–29, 44, 81 McKibben, Bill, 35–36, 138 McMahan, Jeff, 163–164, 169–172, 174, 184, 186–187 Moravec, Hans, 22 More, Max, 25, 138 Mukherjee, Siddhartha, 110–110 Nozick, Robert, 6–7, 64–65 Ord, Toby, 71 Parfit, Derek, 56–58 Persson, Ingmar, 158, 183, 191 Pod aliens; body-snatching, xi, 6–14, 65, 137, 196 Polgár family, 147, 148, 151–153 Popper, Karl, 86–87, 107 Psychological continuity theory of identity , 56–68 Savulescu, Julian, 19, 158, 183, 191 Simulation theory, 36–44 Singer, Peter, 169, 187–188 Singularity, the, 24, 77–78 Smith, Michael, 177 Sparrow, Rob, 204 Star Trek, xiv, 8–9, 31, 173–174, 196–197 Strevens, Michael, 93–95 Theory of everything, 88, 97–105 Transformative change, xi, 5–20, 30–31, 43, 64–66, 83, 106, 114, 137, 196, 198–200 Transhumanism, 17, 24–25, 131, 138, 198 Walker, Mark, 138, 158 Whole-body interdiction of the lengthening of telomeres (WILT), 117–119, 125–126, 128, 132 Wikler, Daniel, 139–140 Williams, Bernard, 57, 74 ...