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Human enhancement

January 01, 1970

For the book edited by Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom, see Human Enhancement (book).

Human enhancement is the natural, artificial, or technological alteration of the human body in order to enhance physical or mental capabilities.[1]

Technologies edit

Existing technologies edit

 
Gene therapy using an adenovirus vector

Three forms of human enhancement currently exist: reproductive, physical, and mental. Reproductive enhancements include embryo selection by preimplantation genetic diagnosis, cytoplasmictransfer, and in vitro-generated gametes. Physical enhancements include cosmetics (plastic surgery and orthodontics), Drug-induced (doping and performance-enhancing drugs), functional (prosthetics and powered exoskeletons), Medical (implants (e.g. pacemaker) and organ replacements (e.g. bionic lenses)), and strength training (weights (e.g. barbells) and dietary supplement)). Examples of mental enhancements are nootropics, neurostimulation, and supplements that improve mental functions.[2][3] Computers, mobile phones, and Internet[4] can also be used to enhance cognitive efficiency. Notable efforts in human augmentation are driven by the interconnected Internet of Things (IoT) devices,[5] including wearable electronics (e.g., augmented reality glasses, smart watches, smart textile), personal drones, on-body and in-body nanonetworks.[6]

Emerging technologies edit

Many different forms of human enhancing technologies are either on the way or are currently being tested and trialed. A few of these emerging technologies include: human genetic engineering (gene therapy), neurotechnology (neural implants and brain–computer interfaces), cyberware, strategies for engineered negligible senescence, nanomedicine, and 3D bioprinting. Variants of human genetic engineering with so far limited usage include the artificial creation of human-animal hybrids (where each cell has partly human and partly animal genetic contents) and human-animal chimeras (where some cells are human and some cells are animal in origin).[7]

Speculative technologies edit

Some other human enhancement technologies are still speculative, such as: mind uploading, exocortex, and endogenous artificial nutrition. Mind uploading is the hypothetical process of "transferring"/"uploading" or copying a conscious mind from a brain to a non-biological substrate by scanning and mapping a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system or another computational device. The exocortex can be defined as a theoretical artificial external information processing system that would augment a brain's biological high-level cognitive processes. Endogenous artificial nutrition can be similar to having a radioisotope generator that resynthesizes glucose (similarly to photosynthesis), amino acids and vitamins from their degradation products, theoretically availing for weeks without food if necessary.

Nick Bostrom listed some additional capabilities that are expected to be physically possible in theory, given a sufficient technological level, such as:[8]

  • Reversal of aging
  • Cures for all diseases
  • Arbitrary sensory inputs (e.g. generating subjective experience of taste without eating anything)
  • Precise control of personality, mood, motivation, well-being

Nootropics edit

Main article: Nootropic

There are many substances that are purported to have promise in augmenting human cognition by various means. These substances are called nootropics and can potentially benefit individuals with cognitive decline and many different disorders, but may also be capable of yielding results in cognitively healthy persons. Generally speaking, nootropics are said to be effective for enhancing focus, learning, memory function, mood, and in some cases, physical brain development. Some examples of these include Citicoline,[9] Huperzine A, Phosphatidylserine,[10] Bacopa monnieri,[11] Acetyl-L-carnitine,[12] Uridine monophosphate, L-theanine,[13][14][15] Rhodiola rosea, and Pycnogenol which are all forms of dietary supplement. There are also nootropic drugs such as the common racetams, e.g. piracetam (Nootropil) and omberacetam (Noopept)[16][17][18] along with the neuroprotective Semax, and N-Acetyl Semax.[19] There are also nootropics related to naturally occurring substances but that are either modified in a lab or are analogs such as Vinpocetine and Sulbutiamine. Some authors have explored nootropics as relationship enhancements to help couples maintain bonds over time.[20]

Ethics edit

Much debate surrounds the topic of human enhancement and the means used to achieve one's enhancement goals.[21] Ethical attitudes toward human enhancement can depend on many factors such as religious affiliation, age, gender, ethnicity, culture of origin, and nationality.[22]

In some circles the expression "human enhancement" is roughly synonymous with human genetic engineering,[23][24] but most often it is referred to the general application of the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science (NBIC) to improve human performance.[25]

Since the 1990s, several academics (such as some of the fellows of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies[26]) have risen to become advocates of the case for human enhancement while other academics (such as the members of President Bush's Council on Bioethics[27]) have become outspoken critics.[28]

Advocacy of the case for human enhancement is increasingly becoming synonymous with "transhumanism", a controversial ideology and movement which has emerged to support the recognition and protection of the right of citizens to either maintain or modify their own minds and bodies; so as to guarantee them the freedom of choice and informed consent of using human enhancement technologies on themselves and their children.[29] Their common understanding of the world can be seen from a physicist perspective rather than a biological perspective.[30] Based on the idea of technological singularity, human enhancement is merging with technological innovation that will advance post-humanism.[30]

Neuromarketing consultant Zack Lynch argues that neurotechnologies will have a more immediate effect on society than gene therapy and will face less resistance as a pathway of radical human enhancement. He also argues that the concept of "enablement" needs to be added to the debate over "therapy" versus "enhancement".[31]

The prospect of human enhancement has sparked public controversy.[32][33][34] The main ethical question in the debate about human enhancement involves which legal restrictions, if any, should exist.[35]

Dale Carrico wrote that "human enhancement" is a loaded term which has eugenic overtones because it may imply the improvement of human hereditary traits to attain a universally accepted norm of biological fitness (at the possible expense of human biodiversity and neurodiversity), and therefore can evoke negative reactions far beyond the specific meaning of the term.[36] Michael Selgelid terms this as a phase of "neugenics" suggesting that gene enhancements occurring now have already revived the idea of eugenics in our society. Practices of prenatal diagnosis, selective abortion and in-vitro fertilization aims to improve human life allowing for parents to decide via genetic information if they want to continue or terminate the pregnancy.[37]

A criticism of human enhancement is that it will create unfair physical or mental advantages, or unequal access to such enhancements, can and will further the gulf between the "haves" and "have-nots".[38][39][40][41]

Futurist Ray Kurzweil has shown some concern that, within the century, humans may be required to merge with this technology in order to compete in the marketplace.[30] Enhanced individuals have a better chance of being chosen for better opportunities in careers, entertainment and resources.[42] For example, life extending technologies can increase the average individual life span, affecting the distribution of pension throughout the society. Increasing lifespan will affect human population, further dividing limited resources such as food, energy, monetary resources and habitat.[42] Other critics of human enhancement fear that such capabilities would change, for the worse, the dynamic relations within a family. Given the choices of superior qualities, parents make their child as opposed to merely birthing it, and the newborn becomes a product of their will rather than a gift of nature to be loved unconditionally.[43]

Effects on identity edit

Human enhancement technologies can impact human identity by affecting one's self-conception.[44] The argument does not necessarily come from the idea of improving the individual but rather changing who they are and becoming someone new. Altering an individual identity affects their personal story, development and mental capabilities. The basis of this argument comes from two main points : the charge of inauthenticity and the charge of violating an individual's core characteristics.[44] Gene therapy has the ability to alter one’s mental capacity, and through this argument, has the ability to affect their narrative identity.[44] An individual's core characteristics may include internal psychological style, personality, general intelligence, necessity to sleep, normal aging, gender and being Homo sapiens. Technologies threaten to alter the self fundamentally to the point where the result is, essentially, a different person entirely.[44] For example, extreme changes in personality may affect the individual's relationships because others can no longer relate to the new person.[41]

The capability approach focuses on a normative framework that can be applied to how human enhancement technologies affects human capabilities.[45] The ethics of this does not necessarily focus on the make up of the individual but rather what it allows individuals to do in today's society. This approach was first termed by Amartya Sen, where he mainly focused on the objectives of the approach rather than the aim for those objectives which entail resources, technological processes, and economic arrangement.[45] The central human capabilities include life, bodily health, bodily integrity, sense, emotions, practical reason, affiliation, other species, play, and control over one's environment. This normative framework recognizes that human capabilities are always changing and technology has already played a part in this.[45]

See also edit

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Further reading edit

  • Michael Bess (2015). Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the Near Future. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807052174.

External links edit

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to Human enhancement.
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  • Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)
  • "Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers" (an NSF-funded report), August 31, 2009
  • NeoHumanitas: Thinking our Future. Think tank reflecting on enhancing technologies
  • The Case for Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Human Enhancement (PeterLang, 2016)
  • Future-Human.Life (NeoHumanitas, 2017)
  • Augmented Human International Conferences

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For the book edited by Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom see Human Enhancement book Human enhancement is the natural artificial or technological alteration of the human body in order to enhance physical or mental capabilities 1 Contents 1 Technologies 1 1 Existing technologies 1 2 Emerging technologies 1 3 Speculative technologies 2 Nootropics 3 Ethics 3 1 Effects on identity 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksTechnologies editExisting technologies edit nbsp Gene therapy using an adenovirus vector Three forms of human enhancement currently exist reproductive physical and mental Reproductive enhancements include embryo selection by preimplantation genetic diagnosis cytoplasmictransfer and in vitro generated gametes Physical enhancements include cosmetics plastic surgery and orthodontics Drug induced doping and performance enhancing drugs functional prosthetics and powered exoskeletons Medical implants e g pacemaker and organ replacements e g bionic lenses and strength training weights e g barbells and dietary supplement Examples of mental enhancements are nootropics neurostimulation and supplements that improve mental functions 2 3 Computers mobile phones and Internet 4 can also be used to enhance cognitive efficiency Notable efforts in human augmentation are driven by the interconnected Internet of Things IoT devices 5 including wearable electronics e g augmented reality glasses smart watches smart textile personal drones on body and in body nanonetworks 6 Emerging technologies edit Many different forms of human enhancing technologies are either on the way or are currently being tested and trialed A few of these emerging technologies include human genetic engineering gene therapy neurotechnology neural implants and brain computer interfaces cyberware strategies for engineered negligible senescence nanomedicine and 3D bioprinting Variants of human genetic engineering with so far limited usage include the artificial creation of human animal hybrids where each cell has partly human and partly animal genetic contents and human animal chimeras where some cells are human and some cells are animal in origin 7 Speculative technologies edit Some other human enhancement technologies are still speculative such as mind uploading exocortex and endogenous artificial nutrition Mind uploading is the hypothetical process of transferring uploading or copying a conscious mind from a brain to a non biological substrate by scanning and mapping a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system or another computational device The exocortex can be defined as a theoretical artificial external information processing system that would augment a brain s biological high level cognitive processes Endogenous artificial nutrition can be similar to having a radioisotope generator that resynthesizes glucose similarly to photosynthesis amino acids and vitamins from their degradation products theoretically availing for weeks without food if necessary Nick Bostrom listed some additional capabilities that are expected to be physically possible in theory given a sufficient technological level such as 8 Reversal of aging Cures for all diseases Arbitrary sensory inputs e g generating subjective experience of taste without eating anything Precise control of personality mood motivation well beingNootropics editMain article Nootropic There are many substances that are purported to have promise in augmenting human cognition by various means These substances are called nootropics and can potentially benefit individuals with cognitive decline and many different disorders but may also be capable of yielding results in cognitively healthy persons Generally speaking nootropics are said to be effective for enhancing focus learning memory function mood and in some cases physical brain development Some examples of these include Citicoline 9 Huperzine A Phosphatidylserine 10 Bacopa monnieri 11 Acetyl L carnitine 12 Uridine monophosphate L theanine 13 14 15 Rhodiola rosea and Pycnogenol which are all forms of dietary supplement There are also nootropic drugs such as the common racetams e g piracetam Nootropil and omberacetam Noopept 16 17 18 along with the neuroprotective Semax and N Acetyl Semax 19 There are also nootropics related to naturally occurring substances but that are either modified in a lab or are analogs such as Vinpocetine and Sulbutiamine Some authors have explored nootropics as relationship enhancements to help couples maintain bonds over time 20 Ethics editMuch debate surrounds the topic of human enhancement and the means used to achieve one s enhancement goals 21 Ethical attitudes toward human enhancement can depend on many factors such as religious affiliation age gender ethnicity culture of origin and nationality 22 In some circles the expression human enhancement is roughly synonymous with human genetic engineering 23 24 but most often it is referred to the general application of the convergence of nanotechnology biotechnology information technology and cognitive science NBIC to improve human performance 25 Since the 1990s several academics such as some of the fellows of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies 26 have risen to become advocates of the case for human enhancement while other academics such as the members of President Bush s Council on Bioethics 27 have become outspoken critics 28 Advocacy of the case for human enhancement is increasingly becoming synonymous with transhumanism a controversial ideology and movement which has emerged to support the recognition and protection of the right of citizens to either maintain or modify their own minds and bodies so as to guarantee them the freedom of choice and informed consent of using human enhancement technologies on themselves and their children 29 Their common understanding of the world can be seen from a physicist perspective rather than a biological perspective 30 Based on the idea of technological singularity human enhancement is merging with technological innovation that will advance post humanism 30 Neuromarketing consultant Zack Lynch argues that neurotechnologies will have a more immediate effect on society than gene therapy and will face less resistance as a pathway of radical human enhancement He also argues that the concept of enablement needs to be added to the debate over therapy versus enhancement 31 The prospect of human enhancement has sparked public controversy 32 33 34 The main ethical question in the debate about human enhancement involves which legal restrictions if any should exist 35 Dale Carrico wrote that human enhancement is a loaded term which has eugenic overtones because it may imply the improvement of human hereditary traits to attain a universally accepted norm of biological fitness at the possible expense of human biodiversity and neurodiversity and therefore can evoke negative reactions far beyond the specific meaning of the term 36 Michael Selgelid terms this as a phase of neugenics suggesting that gene enhancements occurring now have already revived the idea of eugenics in our society Practices of prenatal diagnosis selective abortion and in vitro fertilization aims to improve human life allowing for parents to decide via genetic information if they want to continue or terminate the pregnancy 37 A criticism of human enhancement is that it will create unfair physical or mental advantages or unequal access to such enhancements can and will further the gulf between the haves and have nots 38 39 40 41 Futurist Ray Kurzweil has shown some concern that within the century humans may be required to merge with this technology in order to compete in the marketplace 30 Enhanced individuals have a better chance of being chosen for better opportunities in careers entertainment and resources 42 For example life extending technologies can increase the average individual life span affecting the distribution of pension throughout the society Increasing lifespan will affect human population further dividing limited resources such as food energy monetary resources and habitat 42 Other critics of human enhancement fear that such capabilities would change for the worse the dynamic relations within a family Given the choices of superior qualities parents make their child as opposed to merely birthing it and the newborn becomes a product of their will rather than a gift of nature to be loved unconditionally 43 Effects on identity edit Human enhancement technologies can impact human identity by affecting one s self conception 44 The argument does not necessarily come from the idea of improving the individual but rather changing who they are and becoming someone new Altering an individual identity affects their personal story development and mental capabilities The basis of this argument comes from two main points the charge of inauthenticity and the charge of violating an individual s core characteristics 44 Gene therapy has the ability to alter one s mental capacity and through this argument has the ability to affect their narrative identity 44 An individual s core characteristics may include internal psychological style personality general intelligence necessity to sleep normal aging gender and being Homo sapiens Technologies threaten to alter the self fundamentally to the point where the result is essentially a different person entirely 44 For example extreme changes in personality may affect the individual s relationships because others can no longer relate to the new person 41 The capability approach focuses on a normative framework that can be applied to how human enhancement technologies affects human capabilities 45 The ethics of this does not necessarily focus on the make up of the individual but rather what it allows individuals to do in today s society This approach was first termed by Amartya Sen where he mainly focused on the objectives of the approach rather than the aim for those objectives which entail resources technological processes and economic arrangement 45 The central human capabilities include life bodily health bodily integrity sense emotions practical reason affiliation other species play and control over one s environment This normative framework recognizes that human capabilities are always changing and technology has already played a part in this 45 See also edit nbsp Biology portal Anti aging movement Assisted reproductive technologies Biohappiness Body modification Cloning Directed evolution transhumanism Evidence based learning Gene therapy Genetic engineering Grinder biohacking Human animal hybrid Life extension Moral enhancement Posthuman Posthumanization Technological singularity Transhumanism Outline of transhumanism Human enhancement technologiesReferences edit Buchanan Allen Ethical Issues of Human Enhancement Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Archived from the original on April 3 2019 Retrieved April 26 2019 Dorlands Medical Dictionary Archived from the original on January 30 2008 Lanni C Lenzken SC Pascale A et al March 2008 Cognition enhancers between treating and doping the mind Pharmacol Res 57 3 196 213 doi 10 1016 j phrs 2008 02 004 PMID 18353672 Landau Elizabeth May 7 2012 So you re a cyborg now what CNN Retrieved March 22 2013 Pirmagomedov Rustam Koucheryavy Yevgeni September 27 2019 IoT Technologies for Augmented Human a Survey Internet of Things 14 100120 arXiv 1909 11191 Bibcode 2019arXiv190911191P doi 10 1016 j iot 2019 100120 ISSN 2542 6605 S2CID 202750140 Akyildiz Ian F Brunetti Fernando Blazquez Cristina August 22 2008 Nanonetworks A new communication paradigm Computer Networks 52 12 2260 2279 doi 10 1016 j comnet 2008 04 001 ISSN 1389 1286 Marilyn E Coors Ph D PRO LIFE ACTIVITIES Genetic Enhancement Custom Kids and Chimeras Retrieved January 8 2023 Bostrom Nick March 27 2024 Technological maturity Deep Utopia Life and Meaning in a Solved World ISBN 978 1646871643 Tardner P 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