They claim a moral duty to enhance ourselves.
Broadening human potential by overcoming aging and cognitive limitations.
Bess M.
It suggested that 'the future of our selves' might be at risk.
The emergence of the concept of human engineering.
It includes members selected for academic excellence and interdisciplinary backgrounds, making it ideal for a collective research project.
A transhumanist perspective.
The issue has moved from fiction to practical ethics, focusing on specific forms of enhancement and the future of humanity.
Pioneering scientists like Warwick, visionaries like Kurzweil, and ethicists like Harris.
A being that is part human and part machine.
They do not consider these scenarios to be realistic.
Legislation or ethical standards may prevent the implementation of the proposed technological advancements.
To gauge the coherence of the debate.
They may either justify the debate or be driven by fictional scenarios that provoke unfounded hopes and fears.
The idea of 'transhumans'.
It may provoke distressingly unanswerable questions.
Whether it is ethical to interfere with the human body to a significant extent.
Consequences of the biotechnology revolution.
When humans transcend biology.
We may lose appreciation for natural gifts and humility, and struggle to improve the world around us.
Technology, science, and sports.
It shows that many expectations and fears have a long history, reducing their urgency and novelty.
The speed and intensity of progress in the biotechnological domain.
Dividing the discussion into thematic issues like prenatal diagnostics, artificial intelligence, or human rights.
They find them highly unrealistic and question the feasibility of the proposed technological mergers and timelines.
Beyond human: living with robots and cyborgs.
The realism of future ideas, scientific possibilities, and the likelihood of fictional ideas becoming reality.
They provoke discussions, anxieties, fantasies, and expectations.
Ethics in the age of genetic engineering.
The endeavor to improve humans out of hubris may lead to dangerous side effects, including the loss of human dignity.
The impending loss of 'naturalness' in human life.
A vision of the near future and the convergence of technological accomplishments to create a new type of human being, the 'transhuman'.
The improvement of already existing functions and capacities.
Humanity will be profoundly affected by science and technology in the future.
The extent to which these changes can transform the human condition.
Cloning, gene therapy, and cosmetic surgery.
The philosophy of transhumanism.
Whether it mixes separate issues and engenders fear.
To expand our minds through the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, enhancing cognitive abilities.
Rostand’s 'Can Man Be Modified?' and Ramsey’s 'Fabricated Man'.
They tend to cause little resistance.
A positive connotation of improvement without implying discontinuity.
The flourishing of a health culture and glorification of 'body consciousness'.
To enhance the international debate on 'makeable man' by combining perspectives from different disciplines.
Advancements in healthcare, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
Members of The Young Academy and the Centre for Society and Genomics at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Law and ethics of selecting the next generation.
Finding utilitarian answers to distinguish between desirable and undesirable alterations of human nature.
He argues that it would lead to a loss of meaning in human life, as happiness requires an understanding of unhappiness.
'Artificial man' and 'transhuman'.
Preparing for our future as 'transhumans', genetically and bionically modified creatures.
Genetic engineering, performance enhancers, plastic surgery, and prosthetic medicine.
Individuals have the right to decide for themselves whether or not, and how, to engineer human life, barring harmful consequences.
Decrease in infant deaths and an increase in average life expectancy.
'Makeable man', a value-neutral term that includes various techniques applied to changing human nature.
Wireless communication from one brain to another, leading to telepathic communication.
Each country or linguistic community conducts discussions differently based on the terminology used.
Homo Sapiens 2.0: Festival about the 'Makeable Man'.
Whether there should be limits to the engineering of 'makeable humans'.
A course entitled 'Makeable Man' in its Bachelor degree programme 'Arts and Culture'.
The issue of the 'makeable man' and various procedures related to human enhancement.
Important aspects of human life lose meaning when placed outside of the traditional life cycle.
The ethical case for making better people.
What sort of people should there be, and how biotechnology might strengthen aspects of human nature.
It describes itself as a 'critical movement for bio-ethics'.
A future where human beings will be artificially produced, resembling humans superficially.
It may oversimplify the complexities and differences between various types of human enhancement.
'Artificial muscles for the disabled. A chip implanted in your head. Technology makes man. Dream or nightmare?'
Enhancement of existing functions, methods of selection in reproduction, replacement or expansion of natural elements, steering human behavior, and development of human-like robots.
