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Julia Alessandra Harzheim

Center for Health Humanities, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 179 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA02115, USA.

1 paper in the library · 3 citations · publishing 2025

Papers

What Does It Mean to Be Human Today?

Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees April 1, 2025 Julia Alessandra Harzheim 3 citations

Human beings increasingly see themselves as products of data and algorithms, mirroring machines and reducing mind to brain processes. This book counters such self-reification by defending a humanism of embodiment: corporeality, vitality, and embodied freedom form the basis of self-determined existence, using technology as a means rather than submitting to it. It offers an embodied and enactive account of the person—neither pure mind nor brain but a living being in relation with others—applied to AI, transhumanism, virtual reality, neuroscience, psychiatry, and societal acceleration that fosters disembodiment.