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Uma rápida digressão histórica nos mostra que a investigação da cognição é uma coleção de fartas metáforas. Enquanto Descartes, por exemplo, afirmava que o corpo é tudo aquilo que pode ser limitado por alguma figura e que o pensamento é um atributo intrínseco ao sujeito, Hume escreverá que "a mente é um teatro constituído por percepções distintas e sucessivas". Esse interregno dualista, portanto, calcado naquilo que Putnam considerou uma espécie de "ditadura platônica", induziu-nos constantemente a pensar que mente e corpo são duas realidades distintas e, quiçá, irreconciliáveis. Nosso interior seria acessível apenas ao seu próprio sujeito, sendo sua natureza emanc...
A evolução de campos como Nanotecnologias, Biotecnologias, Robótica, Internet das Coisas e Inteligência Artificial, enunciam diversas possibilidades ao corpo humano, como a criação de clones mentais (mindware ), a recriação exata de imagem em voz de pessoas, tecnologias para o prolongamento da vida ou mesmo o aprimoramento de funções mentais. Cresce no Brasil e no mundo casos onde a imagem e voz de pessoas falecidas são reconstruídas por sistemas de Inteligência Artificial em contextos totalmente novos, não manifestos em vida. Assim, o presente livro tem por objetivo investigar se a reconstrução póstuma de voz e imagem pode ser lícita e quais os instrumentos sustentarão a ...
We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of wide use of human enhancement technologies, while others have viewed it with alarm, and have made clear that they find human enhancement morally objectionable. The Ethics of Human Enhancement examines whether the reactions can be supported by articulated philosophical reasoning, or perhaps explained in terms of psychological influences on moral reasoning. An international team of ethicists refresh the debate with new ideas and arguments, making connections with scientific research and with related issues in moral philosophy.
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This book was written to help engineers to design safer brakes that can be operated and maintained easily. All the necessary analytical tools to study and determine the involvement of brakes in accident causation are included as well as all essential concepts, guidelines, and design checks.
Nessa era exponencial em que se vive, somos espectadores da Quarta Revolução Industrial: a revolução das máquinas. Inclusive no campo da educação as mudanças são inevitáveis, pois o mundo acaba por abandonar a sua linearidade e assumir a sua exponencialidade e, neste contexto, a desatualização torna-se cada vez mais constante, sendo que o que hoje pode ser sinônimo de sucesso pode não o ser amanhã. Nesse cenário, o mais importante para a nossa carreira profissional não é mais estar centrado unicamente em processos puramente analíticos, mas exige-se que os professores também sejam capazes de desenvolver as dimensões inovadoras, criativas e emocionais.
In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the conversation. The Bioethics of Enhancement includes a close reading and analysis of the last century of enhancement thinking and contemporary transhumanist thinkers, the strongest promoters of the obligation to pursue enhancement technology. With specific attention to the work of bioethicists Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu, the book challenges the rhetoric and strategies of enhancement...
The Film Handbook examines the current status of filmmaking, how film is produced and distributed and its relation with today's digital and web-based climate.
Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is a highly prevalent hereditary renal disorder in which fluid-filled cysts are appeared in both kidneys. Main causative genes of ADPKD are PKD1 and PKD2, encoding for polycystin-1 (PC1) and polycystin-2 (PC2) respectively. Those proteins are localized on primary cilia and function as mechanosensor in response to the fluid flow, translating mechanistic stimuli into calcium signaling. With mutations either of PKD1 or PKD2, hyper-activated renal tubular epithelial cell proliferation is observed, followed by disrupted calcium homeostasis and aberrant intracellular cyclic AMP (cAMP) accumulation. Increased cell proliferation with fluid secreti...
It is commonly held that our thoughts, beliefs, desires and feelings - the mental phenomena that we instantiate - are constituted by states and processes that occur inside our head. The view known as externalism, however, denies that mental phenomena are internal in this sense. The mind is not purely in the head. Mental phenomena are hybrid entities that straddle both internal state and processes and things occurring in the outside world. The development of externalist conceptions of the mind is one of the most controversial, and arguably one of the most important, developments in the philosophy of mind in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet, despite its significance most recent wo...