Human Enhancement Technologies and Our Merger with Machines

• Autore: Barfield Woodrow
• Pubblicazione: Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Technology: general issues
• Soggetto non controllato: ableism; alienation; assisted reproductive technologies (ART); autonomy; bionics; biotechnology; brain science; brain-computer interface; brain-computer interface (BCI); brain-machine interface (BMI); cognitive enhancement; cognitive liberty; copyright; copyright law; CRISPR; cultural studies; cultural technology; cyborg; cyborgs; disability; discrimination; Disney; embryo selection; engineering; enhancement technology; ethical; ethics; evolution; gene editing; genome-wide association studies (GWAS); Homo sapiens; Homo technologicus; human enhancement; human enhancements; human rights; human-machine interaction; human-robot interaction; identity; implants; in vitro gametogenesis (IVG); informed consent; intellectual property; international law; legal and social Issues (ELSI); marketing; military ethics; mind; moral enhancement; n/a; narrative review; neuroethics; neuropolitics; neuroprosthesis; new senses; numeric identity; patent law; posthumans; prosthesis; public opinion; racism; sense of agency; speciesism; supercrip; superhumans; upgrading humans; voting; vulnerability
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• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Human Enhancement Technologies and Our Merger with Machines
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910557334203321
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