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What does human enhancement technology (HET) and artificial intelligence (AI) have to do with religion? This book explores, specifically, the intersection of HET and AI with spiritual health, Christianity, and ethics. The exploration strengthens an emergent, robust body of publications about human enhancement ethics. What does it mean to make us “better” must also address the potential spiritual implications. Concern for spiritual health promises to make the study of religion and human enhancement ethics increasingly pressing in the public sphere. Some of the most significant possible and probable spiritual impacts of HET and AI are probed. Topics include warfare, robots, chatbots, moral bioenhancement, spiritual psychotherapy, superintelligence, ecology, fasting, and psychedelics. Two sections comprise this book: one addresses spirituality in relation to HETs and AI, and one addresses Christianity in relation to HETs and AI.

Religion & beliefs --- spiritual --- Replika --- AI --- ethics --- Spiritual AIM --- spiritual assessment --- chat-bot --- fabulation --- attribution and ascription --- machine agents --- spiritually authorizing encounter --- Spirituality Chatbot --- ELIZA effect --- Mindar --- artificial intelligence (AI) --- aging --- longevity --- deep aging clocks (DACs) --- Incarnation --- fasting --- biohorology --- artificial intelligence --- drone --- remote warfare --- spiritual health --- PTSD --- spirituality --- moral bioenhancement --- Christianity --- virtue --- dignity --- justice --- empathy --- psychedelic drugs --- mystical experience --- psychedelic therapy --- Huston Smith --- psychedelic spirituality --- psychedelics and religion --- psychedelics and theology --- psychedelic churches --- intelligence --- superintelligence --- machine intelligence --- intelligence amplification --- reason --- love --- transhumanism --- public theology --- AI ethics --- Knud Løgstrup --- cognitive and moral enhancement --- volition --- conversion --- Rome Call for AI Ethics --- environment --- technology --- ecological solidarity --- Catholicism --- Aaron Beck --- cognitive therapy --- enhancement --- mental health --- pastoral care --- psychotherapy --- spiritual care --- spiritual caregivers --- spiritual distress --- biotechnologies --- extended life --- pregnancy --- constructive theology --- malthusian crisis

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A cross-disciplinary approach is offered to consider the challenge of emerging technologies designed to enhance human bodies and minds. Perspectives from philosophy, ethics, law, and policy are applied to a wide variety of enhancements, including integration of technology within human bodies, as well as genetic, biological, and pharmacological modifications. Humans may be permanently or temporarily enhanced with artificial parts by manipulating (or reprogramming) human DNA and through other enhancement techniques (and combinations thereof). We are on the cusp of significantly modifying (and perhaps improving) the human ecosystem. This evolution necessitates a continuing effort to re-evaluate current laws and, if appropriate, to modify such laws or develop new laws that address enhancement technology. A legal, ethical, and policy response to current and future human enhancements should strive to protect the rights of all involved and to recognize the responsibilities of humans to other conscious and living beings, regardless of what they look like or what abilities they have (or lack). A potential ethical approach is outlined in which rights and responsibilities should be respected even if enhanced humans are perceived by non-enhanced (or less-enhanced) humans as “no longer human” at all.

Technology: general issues --- cyborgs --- implants --- posthumans --- Homo technologicus --- Homo sapiens --- human-machine interaction --- cyborg --- enhancement technology --- prosthesis --- brain–computer interface --- new senses --- identity --- neuroprosthesis --- patent law --- copyright law --- cognitive liberty --- international law --- evolution --- cultural technology --- human enhancement --- engineering --- bionics --- biotechnology --- disability --- marketing --- cultural studies --- Disney --- supercrip --- human enhancements --- autonomy --- informed consent --- moral enhancement --- vulnerability --- numeric identity --- military ethics --- human–machine interaction --- upgrading humans --- superhumans --- gene editing --- embryo selection --- CRISPR --- cognitive enhancement --- assisted reproductive technologies (ART) --- public opinion --- in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) --- genome-wide association studies (GWAS) --- brain–computer interface (BCI) --- brain–machine interface (BMI) --- ethical --- legal and social Issues (ELSI) --- neuroethics --- narrative review --- intellectual property --- copyright --- neuropolitics --- brain science --- voting --- human rights --- ethics --- discrimination --- racism --- speciesism --- ableism --- human–robot interaction --- mind --- sense of agency --- alienation --- n/a --- brain-computer interface --- brain-computer interface (BCI) --- brain-machine interface (BMI) --- human-robot interaction

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religion --- artificial intelligence --- religion and science --- faith --- AI --- artificial intelligence (AI) --- information technology --- Artificial intelligence Religious aspects --- Christianity --- emotions --- transhumanism --- human enhancement technology (HET) --- spiritual health --- Replika --- ethics --- Spiritual AIM --- spiritual assessment --- chat-bot --- fabulation --- attribution and ascription --- machine agents --- spiritually authorizing encounter --- Spirituality Chatbot --- ELIZA effect --- Mindar --- aging --- longevity --- deep aging clocks (DAC) --- Incarnation --- fasting --- biohorology --- drone --- remote warfare --- PTSD --- spirituality --- moral bioenhancement --- virtue --- dignity --- justice --- empathy --- psychedelic drugs --- mystical experience --- psychedelic therapy --- Huston Smith --- psychedelic spirituality --- psychedelics and religion --- psychedelics and theology --- psychedelic churches --- intelligence --- superintelligence --- machine intelligence --- intelligence amplification --- public theology --- AI ethics --- ethics of artificial intelligence --- Knud Løgstrup --- cognitive and moral enhancement --- volition --- conversion --- Rome Call for AI Ethics --- environment --- ecological solidarity --- Catholicism --- Aaron Beck --- cognitive therapy --- mental health --- pastoral care --- psychotherapy --- spiritual care --- spiritual caregivers --- spiritual distress --- biotechnologies --- extended life --- pregnancy --- constructive theology --- malthusian crisis