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More Human than Human.

Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
Within the literature surrounding nonhuman animals on the one hand and cognitively disabled humans on the other, there is much discussion of where beings that do not satisfy the criteria for personhood fit in our moral deliberations. In the future, w...

Eight Kinds of Critters: A Moral Taxonomy for the Twenty-Second Century.

The Journal of medicine and philosophy
Over the coming century, the accelerating advance of bioenhancement technologies, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) may significantly broaden the qualitative range of sentient and intelligent beings. This article proposes a taxonomy of such ...

Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI.

Bioethics
A prominent critique of cognitive or athletic enhancement claims that certain performance-improving drugs or technologies may 'cheapen' resulting achievements. Considerably less attention has been paid to the impact of enhancement on the value of mor...

Digital Doppelgängers and Lifespan Extension: What Matters?

The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
There is an ongoing debate about the ethics of research on lifespan extension: roughly, using medical technologies to extend biological human lives beyond the current "natural" limit of about 120 years. At the same time, there is an exploding interes...