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dc.contributor.authorBurdett, Michael
dc.contributor.authorLeung, King-Ho
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-22T16:30:14Z
dc.date.available2023-03-22T16:30:14Z
dc.date.issued2023-09-01
dc.identifier283511343
dc.identifier8a20c802-6fbc-4826-b451-3f71a98480aa
dc.identifier85150887928
dc.identifier.citationBurdett , M & Leung , K-H 2023 , ' The machine in the ghost : transhumanism and the ontology of information ' , Zygon , vol. 58 , no. 3 , 12886 , pp. 714-731 . https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12886en
dc.identifier.issn0591-2385
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5551-7865/work/131588284
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/27240
dc.description.abstractAn ontology of information belies our common intuitions about reality today and animates and governs both explicit scholarly study in philosophy and the sciences as well as the ideologies that are growing out of them. Transhumanism is one such technoscientific ideology that holds to a very specific ontology of information which need not be the only one on offer. This article argues that the transhumanist ontology of information exhibits gnostic and docetic religious overtones in it and that it devalues physical existence. At the same time, despite claiming a rejection of supernature, hypothetical transhumanist practices (such as mind-uploading) posit the infosphere as a kind of supernatural realm that is often set in opposition to the natural world. This article presents a critique of transhumanist conceptions of information and offers an alternative ontology of information that more adequately accounts for the distinction between the natural and supernatural as well as the integrity of the physical world.
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dc.format.extent184436
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofZygonen
dc.subjectThomas Aquinasen
dc.subjectExtended minden
dc.subjectLuciano Floridien
dc.subjectInformationen
dc.subjectMind-uploadingen
dc.subjectNaturalismen
dc.subjectOntologyen
dc.subjectSupernaturalen
dc.subjectTranshumanismen
dc.subjectB Philosophy. Psychology. Religionen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccBen
dc.titleThe machine in the ghost : transhumanism and the ontology of informationen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorTempleton Religion Trusten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/zygo.12886
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberTRT0391en


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