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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Philosophical Aspects -- Chapter 1: Aspects of Mind Uploading -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Is It Technically Doable? -- 3 Consciousness -- 4 Personal Identity -- 5 Ethical Concerns -- 6 A Society of Uploads -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Transhumanism as a Derailed Anthropology -- 1 Introduction: The Story so Far -- 2 Manifestations of Transhumanism -- 2.1 Three Types of Transhumanism -- 2.2 Future Paradise as a Kind of Transhumanism? -- 2.3 Marxism -- 2.4 Gaia Hypothesis -- 3 Anthropology and the AI Image of Man -- 3.1 Man, Animal, Machine -- 3.2 Man Embedded in Systems -- 4 Autonomy as a Presupposition for Singularity -- 5 Interests, Concrete and Future -- 5.1 Religious Motivations and Interests in Transcendence -- 5.2 Economic Interests -- 5.3 Epistemological Interests -- 6 A New Man, a New World: For Whom? -- 6.1 Religious Borderlines -- 6.2 Reductionism -- 7 Resist the Beginnings -- 7.1 Objections -- 7.2 Moralizing Business Models -- 7.3 Eight Rules -- 8 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Transhumanism and Philosophy of Technology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Technophobia and Technophilia -- 2.1 Technophobic Derivative -- 2.2 Transhumanism -- 2.3 The Substrate-Independent Mind -- 2.4 The Limits of the Humanist Heritage -- 3 Towards a Different Philosophy of Technology (and Nature) -- 3.1 Beyond the Failure of Modern Categories -- 3.2 Culture Is Nature -- 3.3 The Constitutive Role of the Technical Mediation -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: Senseless Transhumanism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Three Man´s Activities -- 3 Intentionality -- 4 Transhumanism and Utopias -- 5 Loss of Sense in Transhumanism -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Elements of a Posthuman Philosophy of Art -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Non-duality, Technology and Posthuman Works of Art.

"The volume comprises the proceedings of the second International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics LDIC 2009. The scope of the conference was concerned with the identification, analysis, and description of the dynamics of logistic processes and networks. The spectrum reached from the planning and modelling of processes over innovative methods like autonomous control and knowledge management to the new technologies provided by radio frequency identification, mobile communication, and networking. The growing dynamics confronts the area of logistics with completely new challenges: It must become possible to rapidly and flexibly adapt logistic processes and networks to continuously changing conditions. LDIC 2009 provided a forum for the discussion of advances in that matter. The volume consists of one invited paper and of 47 contributed papers divided into various subjects including mathematical modelling in transport and production logistics, routing in dynamic logistic networks, sustainable collaboration and supply chain control policies, information, communication, autonomy, adaption and cognition in logistics, radio frequency identification in logistics and manufacturing networks, applications in production logistics, and logistic solutions for ports, container terminals, regions and services"--Publisher description

Humankind is on the transition to a supra-system of humanity, according to which social relationships – that organise the common good – are re-organised such that global challenges are kept below the threshold of a self-inflicted breakdown. In order to succeed, three conditions are imperative: (1) Global governance needs a global conscience that orients towards the protection of the common good. (2) Such global governance needs a global dialogue on the state of the common good and the ways to proceed. (3) Such a global dialogue needs global citizens able to reflect upon the current state of the common good and the ways to proceed to desired states. Each of these imperatives is about a space of possibilities. Each space nests the following one such that they altogether form the scaffolding along which institutions can emerge that realise the imperatives when proper nuclei are introduced in those spaces. Such nuclei would already support each other. However, the clue is to further their integration by Information and Communication Technologies. An information platform shall be launched that could cover any task on any of the three levels, entangled with the articulation of cooperative action from the local to the global, based on the cybersubsidiarity model. This model is devised to ensure the percolation of meaningful information throughout the different organisational levels. ; 2019-20

Das Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung e.V. (FIfF) setzt sich seit 30 Jahren mit den Wechselwirkungen von Informatik und Gesellschaft auseinander. Dieser Jubiläumsband mit einer Reihe von Beiträgen bekannter Autorinnen und Autoren lässt ein Spektrum aktueller und brisanter Themen Revue passieren, das von Überwachung und Datenschutz über Rüstung und Informatik, Informatik und Gender, Verantwortung und Fairness im informatischen Handeln bis hin zum kreativen Arbeiten und zu immateriellen Gütern reicht.