The Ethical Conundrums of Transhumanism

Today, transhumanism has delivered major advances in many of these scientific fields. Advances in gene therapy have produced promising results fighting many forms of cancer and inactivating mutated or malicious DNA. Mind uploading is a more distant future potentiality but not without key advances in mind-modeling algorithms, mind-simulation, and transcranial direct-current stimulation. Virtual reality has provided advances in software, digital recording, augmented reality, and hardware. In cybernetics, amputee Les Baugh controls his robotic prosthesis with his mind.

The lines between man and machine are starting to blur, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to parse out what constitutes man, machine, moral agency, and moral freedom. And this is why we are presented with such a complex ethical dilemma.

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