Personhood in science fiction : religious and philosophical considerations
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Personhood in science fiction : religious and philosophical considerations
Palgrave Macmillan, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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, dehumanization and othering, and free will. Classic and modern sci-fi texts are engaged, as well as film and television. This book argues that science fiction allows us to examine the profound question of personhood through its speculative and imaginative nature, highlighting issues that are already visible in our present world.
目次
Introduction
* Defining "science fiction"
* Organization and method
* Brain versus mind, thinking versus understanding
* Consciousness
* Soul
* Chapter previews
Chapter 1 Defining personhood in a posthuman world
* An introduction to Westworld
* Personhood as social
* Outward personhood
* Inward personhood: religious and spiritual evolutions
Chapter 2 Dehumanization of the "non-human" being
* Dehumanizing of the Other
* Cylons, replicants, and clones
* Empathy as uniquely human
* Does a "person" require a "soul"?
* Dehumanization as legitimation for extinction: the Borg
Chapter 3 Embodied and non-bodied selves
* The bicameral mind
* Minds in bodies, ghosts in shells
* Bodies without souls
* Mind without body
* Computer brain, human brain
Chapter 4 Ethics of AI
* Human-Robot relations
* In whose image?
* Ethics of creation
* Purpose of AI
* Asimov's "Reason"
* AI without ethics
Chapter 5 Artificial consciousness and synthetic souls
* The android soul
* Developing the soul
* Memories and emotion
* Souls, androids, and cyborgs
* Redux: Does a "person" require a "soul"?
Chapter 6 The alien-other: monsters, mutants, and othered bodies
* The racialized alien-other
* Aliens and immigrants
* Threats of extinction
* Mutation
* Eugenics as solution to "defective" humanity
* The disabled Other
Chapter 7 Free Will?
* Personhood, free will, and moral responsibility
* Free Will: "Time to write my own fucking story"
* Predestination: "God has a plan."
* Determinism: "Does all of this have to happen again?"
* The player piano
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