The Mind and the Machine: What It Means to Be Human and Why It Matters
Description
Are humans just complex biochemical machines, mere physical parts of a causally closed materialist universe? Are we approaching the so-called ‘Singularity’, when human consciousness can (and will) be downloaded into computers? Or is there more to the human person – something that might be known as ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’? As this book makes clear, the answers to these questions have profound implications to topics such as heroism, creativity, ecology, and the possibility of reason and science. In exploring this important topic, Dickerson engages the idea...
ISBN(s)
0718894928, 9780718894924
