Document Type
Honors Project
First Advisor
Steve Watson
Degree Award Date
Spring 2006
Keywords
Cognitive Enhancement, Human Intelligence, Human Nature, moral implications
Disciplines
Bioethics and Medical Ethics | Rehabilitation and Therapy
Abstract
The focus of this paper is thus to consider the major concerns about enhancing memory, attention, alertness, executive function and other processes associated with intellect in an attempt to provide a framework for understanding some of the moral implications. In doing so, it will be necessary to consider first the problematic terminologies of enhancement and therapy and to discuss the imperative and the bounds for the ethical discourse. Central to all ethical concerns regarding cognitive enhancement, it shall be argued, is that of indelibly changing the meaning of being human; a meaning that is not endangered by making mankind more intelligent.
Recommended Citation
Nolley, Eric, "A Beautiful Mind? Cognitive Enhancement, Human Intelligence, and Human Nature" (2006). Honors Projects. 265.
https://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/honors_projects/265