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“Figh from freedom that i’ve lost” the powerful message of the new cems London graduated Leonardo Lotto
The young 24-years old graduate from Cems in London makes a speech full of meaning for the transhumanist world: “fight for the freedom that i have lost”. A phrase that gives hope to other recent graduates of his age, but also to tears for those who knew the healty Leonardo…
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GENETICS AND GENOMICS: IMPACT ON SOCIETY
Article of https://www.sienna-project.eu/genomics/ New and improved technologies for genetic and genomic research are slowly making their way from research to patients and consumers. This raises ethical, legal and social questions for both individuals and society. New technologies such as next generation sequencing make it possible to test individuals and screen…
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HUMAN ENHANCEMENT: IMPACT ON SOCIETY
Article of https://www.sienna-project.eu/enhancement/ Education and exercise can enhance our abilities. So can technology: in the form of implants, drugs, genetic enhancement or machines. This comes with ethical, legal and social challenges. As a society, we need to discuss the ethical questions of what is normal, what is natural, what is…
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Human enhancement: genetic engineering and evolution
Article of Mara Almeida and Rui Diogo, Lisbon University, Portugal (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6788211/) Image from Adobe Stock https://stock.adobe.com/it/search?k=%22human+enhancement%22 Genetic engineering opens new possibilities for biomedical enhancement requiring ethical, societal and practical considerations to evaluate its implications for human biology, human evolution and our natural environment. In this Commentary, we consider human enhancement,…
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What is Transhumanism and Human Enhancement?
Transhumanism is the filosophical and ideological movement that promotes a vision of human body in terms of enhancement phisical and cognitive abilities to maximise happiness. The first person that introduce Transhumanism is Aldous Huxley, english genetist and molecular biologist, in his publicated article “The world, the Flesh and the Devil”…
