Integrated neuro-enhancement
Integrated neuro-enhancement

Author(s): Vojin Rakić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: integrated neuro-enhancement; cognitive enhancement; moral enhancement; bioethics of enhancement; freedom and responsibility; biomedical interventions; human evolution and technology
Summary/Abstract: Libertarian proponents of cognitive bio-enhancement believe that we should not refuse enhancement to someone who wishes to be subjected to it. The enlargement of human possibilities is a step to greater freedom, because of two reasons. Firstly, it increases the options open to people by adding the option of undergoing enhancement. Secondly, the enhancement it self increases freedom: it enables us to learn and earn more, augmenting thereby the number of opportunities we have in our lives. It is therefore not bio-technologies but the state that is the primary potential culprit for denying our pursuit of happiness through self-improvement.

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