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Converging Cognitive Enhancements [PDF]
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006 Abstract: Cognitive enhancement, the amplification or extension of core capacities of the mind, has become a major topic in bioethics. But cognitive enhancement is a prime example of a converging technology where individual disciplines merge and issues transcend particular local discourses.
Anders Sandberg, Nick Bostrom
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Cognitive Enhancement: Methods, Ethics, Regulatory Challenges [PDF]
Science and Engineering Ethics, 2009 Cognitive enhancement takes many and diverse forms. Various methods of cognitive enhancement have implications for the near future. At the same time, these technologies raise a range of ethical issues.
Anders Sandberg, Nick Bostrom
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Pharmacological cognitive enhancement and the value of achievements: An intervention [PDF]
Bioethics, 2023 Pharmacological cognitive enhancements nontherapeutically improve cognitive functioning, though recent critics have challenged their use by claiming that cognitive success, aided by the use of cognitive enhancement, is less valuable than otherwise.
Emma C Gordon
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Recognizing the Diversity of Cognitive Enhancements
AJOB Neuroscience, 2020Empirical investigations into ordinary people’s bioethical intuitions have steadily grown throughout the last decades.
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The Families of Cognition Enhancers
Pharmacopsychiatry, 1989An attempt has been made to classify the numerous drugs used to treat cognition deficits according to their chemical structures and to their main physiological effects. Particular emphasis has been given to the following families: Piracetam-type, Co-dergocrine-type and vincamine-type compounds; cholinergic agents, psychostimulants, vasodilators ...
W, Fröstl, L, Maître
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Neuroethical Issues in Cognitive Enhancement
Focus, 2010Neuroethics is a developing field, concerned with addressing present and future applied ethical issues brought about directly and indirectly by neuroscience advancements. One domain where neuroscience has begun to have far-reaching ethical implications is in the research and development of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers.
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Nicotine as a cognitive enhancer
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 19921. Nicotine improves attention in a wide variety of tasks in healthy volunteers. 2. Nicotine improves immediate and longer term memory in healthy volunteers. 3. Nicotine improves attention in patients with probable Alzheimer's Disease. 4. While some of the memory effects of nicotine may be due to enhanced attention, others seem to be the result of ...
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The Internet, Cognitive Enhancement, and the Values of Cognition
Minds and Machines, 2016This paper has two distinct but related goals: (1) to identify some of the potential consequences of the Internet for our cognitive abilities and (2) to suggest an approach to evaluate these consequences. I begin by outlining the Google effect, which (allegedly) shows that when we know information is available online, we put less effort into storing ...
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COGNITIVE DISABILITY AND COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT
Metaphilosophy, 2009Abstract: This essay explores problems of consistency among commonsense beliefs about the comparative moral status of animals, fetuses, and human beings congenitally endowed with cognitive capacities and potential no higher than those of higher animals.
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2020
According to the parity principle, the means whereby an agent intervenes in his or her mind, or the minds of others, is irrelevant when it comes to assessing the moral status of the intervention: what matters is how the intervention affects the agent.
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According to the parity principle, the means whereby an agent intervenes in his or her mind, or the minds of others, is irrelevant when it comes to assessing the moral status of the intervention: what matters is how the intervention affects the agent.
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