Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential by Chu, Ted -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Prologue Author’s Preface Part One : Setting the Stage

Chapter One : The Search for a New Human Purpose Chapter Two : Evolution: The Best Idea Ever Chapter Three : Imagining a Posthuman Future

3.1. What the Posthuman Future Is—and Is Not 3.2. The Second Phase of Conscious Evolution 3.3. Confidence in Our Mission and Our Future

Part Two : Wisdom, Cosmic Vision, and Human Potential

Chapter Four : Human Wisdom

4.1. The Axial Age 4.2. Twin Pillars of Western Civilization 4.3. Eastern Wisdom: The Yin-Yang Reality 4.4. Reflections on the Axial Age and Human Wisdom

Chapter Five : The Cosmic View

Chapter Six : Human Potential

6.1. Human Uniqueness 6.2. Unique Human Attributes 6.3. The Cosmic View: Funnel or Hourglass? 6.4. Human Significance: A View from the Future 6.5. Human Aspirations and Cosmic Potential

Part Three : Human Nature and its Limitations

Chapter Seven : All Too Human

7.1. The Limits of Human Nature 7.2. The Limits of Science 7.3. The Limits of Culture and the Problem of Evil 7.4. What Drives People 7.5. The Human Is a Machine—or Is It?

Chapter Eight : A Theory of Perspectives

8.1. Two Eyes 8.2. The Psychological/Neurological Basis of Perspectives 8.3. Stages of Developing Personal Perspective 8.4. Patterns of Perspectives in Society 8.5. Heavy Lifting with Higher Perspectives 8.6. Happiness Cannot Be the Ultimate Goal 8.7. The Greatest Divide and a Leap of Faith

Part Four : Conscious Evolution: Its Power and Implications

Chapter Nine : Conscious Evolution.

9.1. What Is Conscious Evolution? 9.2. Extreme Nature-Worship 9.3. Conscious Evolution Is a Wide-Open Game 9.4. A Greenhouse for Conscious Evolution 9.5. Get Ready for Failures, and Lots of Them

Chapter Ten : Risks and Fears

10.1. What Fear Is For 10.2. Overcoming the Fear Bias against Conscious Evolution 10.3. Addressing Frequently Voiced Fears

Chapter Eleven : The Moral Argument

Part Five : The Cosmic Future

Chapter Twelve : The Cosmic Being

12.1. What Science and History Tell Us about the Future 12.2. Social and Technical Challenges 12.3. CoBe: The Cosmic Being 12.4. New Political Concepts and Relationships 12.5. The Second Axial Age

Chapter Thirteen : Reflection and Expectation

13.1. A New Perspective on Humanity 13.2. Do Not Settle for Too Little 13.3. Leaders, Pioneers, and Favorable Environments 13.4. “What can I do? What’s in it for me?”

Notes Bibliography Index Back Cover