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After the Human

By Taylor, Mark C.

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After the Human

By Taylor, Mark C.

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The world is on fire and time for avoiding impending disaster is rapidly running out. This catastrophe has deeply entrenched foundations: a belief in human exceptionalism and human mastery over the Earth. Accelerating technological changes ranging from genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology to biobots, neuroprosthetics, and artificial intelligence are creating new worlds in which human beings will either be radically transformed or become extinct. After the Human is an ambitious and audacious grand synthesis that weaves together philosophy, theology, quantum mechanics, relativity theory, information theory, ecology, plant and animal cognition, and artificial intelligence to forge a new philosophical vision for the future. Mark C. Taylor calls for replacing human exceptionalism with a theory of radical relationalism, an account of the world in which everything is interrelated and codependent. People, in this telling, are not isolated individuals separated from each other and set apart from the complex world they are destined to dominate but integral parts of a vital web, where differences enrich each other and nourish the greater whole. Ranging from the grounded worlds of dirt and soil to the most abstract realms of quantum ecology, After the Human reveals the alternative intelligences and transformative possibilities that provide hope for life beyond our perilous moment.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
382
Release Date:
2025-02-18
Publication Date:
2025-02-04
Publisher:
Columbia Univers. Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0231218613
ISBN13:
9780231218610
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
890 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
231 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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