Neuro-enhancement, new enhancement
Neuro-enhancement, new enhancement

Author(s): Sarah Chan
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: neuro-enhancement; moral enhancement; natural vs artificial; human nature debate; brain–machine interfaces; serotonin and morality; political control of enhancement
Summary/Abstract: My intention in this paper is to engage with arguments drawing on the concept of the "artificial" (as in the title of this session) and what may be seen as its binary opposite, the "natural"; and to re-examine the ways in which these concepts are used in discussions of human enhancement, particularly neuro-enhancement. l aim to explore how new aspects of neuro-technological enhancement, and the ethical discourse surrounding them, further problematise existing concepts in the enhancement debate - including enhancement itself, as well as the "natural"/"artificial" binary and the use of arguments based on "human nature".

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