Posthumanity : thinking philosophically about the future / Brian Cooney.

Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : Rowman & Littlefield, [2004], ©2004.

xxv, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Part I: reality -- The pathos of the senses -- Liberation from the cave -- Descartes' meditation -- The demon as evil scientist -- Levels of reality -- Part II: mind -- Planet AI-the first day -- The imitation game -- Can machines think? : a Nano response -- Scientism -- E.T. and alien -- Part III: embodiment -- The flow of time -- An enchanted space -- Descartes' sailor -- Our mammalian brain -- Fear and loathing -- The endgame of multicellularity -- Part IV: posthumanity -- Planet AI-the second day -- Planet AI-the third day -- Planet AI-the fourth day.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index.