Human Enhancement Technologies and Our Merger with Machines
Barfield, Woodrow
Human Enhancement Technologies and Our Merger with Machines - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021 - 1 electronic resource (226 p.)
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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.
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books978-3-0365-0905-1 9783036509044 9783036509051
10.3390/books978-3-0365-0905-1 doi
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
Human Enhancement Technologies and Our Merger with Machines - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021 - 1 electronic resource (226 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-0365-0905-1 9783036509044 9783036509051
10.3390/books978-3-0365-0905-1 doi
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