The age of enhancement

Here is a great article I read this morning about “a cornucopia of drugs [that] will soon be on sale to improve everything from our memories to our trust in others.”

While a lot of the promises for a better world seem attractive, I wonder if our quest to master our own body and brain will produce some side effects that are still unseen. One can think of how the human quest to master nature has brought us in a big environmental mess. I think that neuroethics could probably learn a lot from environmental ethics. It seems that the question, “How far should we be able to modify our environment?” reflects the question, “How far should we be able to modify ourselves?”

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