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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Human Enhancement"”.
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How Can the Use of Human Enhancement (HE) Technologies in the Military Be Ethically Assessed?
… mutual respect for the inherent dignity of the human person. The issue of the use of HE in the military is relevant today because the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and the rapid rise of emerging technologies have led to a never-before-seen type of asymmetrical warfare. The rise of these …
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Life Expansion: Toward an Artistic, Design-Based Theory of the Transhuman / Posthuman
… approaches concerned with prolonging human life and sustaining personal identity. To delineate the topic: life expansion means increasing the length of time a person is alive and diversifying the matter in which a person exists. For human life, the length of time is bounded by a single …
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The desire to upload: a theological analysis of transhumanist advocacy for life-extension and immortality
Transhumanism is a movement dedicated to radically changing the human condition through technology, including by extending lifespan in one of three ways: (1) a biological approach that focuses on reducing the effects of aging, (2) a cybernetic approach that focuses on replacing the body with …
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Recycled alterity: Familiar dehumanisation in the contemporary fiction of genetic posthumanism
… are now sufficiently advanced to alter the human genome. Indeed, gene editing is already practiced in some countries for medical purposes. However, future directions for the use of genetic technologies are unclear. Scholars of the “posthuman” future tend to speculate that genetic engineering …
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Of Cyborgs and Chimeras: Our Future With Emerging Technologies
… my discussion in existing scholarship on human enhancement and bioengineering (e.g., gene editing). Combining an overview of the history of cybernetics with explorations of consciousness theories and personhood (particularly in the context of brain-computer interfaces) allows me to build a …
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Techno-Salvation: Developing a Christian Hermeneutic of Enhancement Technology
… philosophers, and ethicists labeled transhumanists and posthumanists argue that by strategic use of technology we can greatly enhance human beings into our next stage of evolution. Rather than leave the evolutionary process to natural results, transhumanists and posthumanists want to shape …
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Design as Ethics: Developing Design Practices for Sensory Augmentation
… et al., 2014). However, as a sub-category of Human Enhancement technology (HEt), specific regulations haven’t yet been developed (European Parliament, 2009; Jensen et al., 2018), without which potentially harmful devices may reach the market. This practice-led research explores how ethics is …
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Transhumanism as a Thin-centred Ideology
… scientific and technological revolution, transhumanism has grown into a worldwide movement and its ideas penetrated the public discourse and popular culture. Transhumanism promotes the radical idea that humanity will be able to transcend its biological limits and enhance individual cognitive, …