What Are The Human Enhancements So Far?

• Cybernetic Enhancements-Brain Implants for unlimited memory and

computing capacity
• Genetic Enhancements : Genetic Modification and the Aryan Race;
hair color, eye color, skin tone, height, weight, facial structure—
Inheritable enhancements; Athleticism, and even IQ, personality, and
other mental traits.
• Nanotechnology Enhancements: Nanobots and Inventive medicine—
postpone ageing.
• Moral Enhancement: ??
 The Ethics of Human Enhancement
• Ethical Issues of Affective Brain–Computer Interfaces: a system that uses
neurophysiological signals to extract features that are related to affective
states (e.g. emotions and moods). Data protection and informed consent,
neurohacking, marketing and political manipulation, inauthentic\fake
emotions
• Exacerbated Social Inequality
• Exacerbated Corporate Inequality at all Managerial Levels
• The Ethics of Autonomy , Choice and Social Life of the first Transhumans
• The Ethics of the Emaciated Family
• The Ethics of the Imbalanced Transhuman
 The Ethics of Human Enhancement
• The Geo-Ethics of the Aryan Race
• Decease-free longevity for the privileged
• Superintelligence for the enhanced
• 4IR is about replacing labour with capital; low and medium human skills
with high human skills and even high human skills with AI and Cyborgs.
• In the first two revolutions, capital needed labour. In the 3IR, capital
created diverse new jobs, which needed low-skilled labour, like Uber
drivers and Zomato delivery boys.
• The 4IR is about finding a cheaper and exponentially more productive
labour-substitute called AI and Post-humans.
• Ethical Implications: The Pink Slip \Capital vs Labour Decisions\Profit
Maximisation vs Universal Minimum Wage\Social Unrest
The Age of Transhumanism
What Are The Human Enhancements So Far?
• Hans Moravec, former director of robotics at Carnegie-Mellon
University and developer of advanced robots for both NASA and the
military, popularized the idea of living perpetually via a digital
substrate.
• He envisioned a procedure in which the entirety of the information
encoded within the neurons of a human brain could be read, copied,
and uploaded to a computer
• Immortality through software existence.
• Embodied Cognition is the opposite of brain emulation. That the body
is an extension of the mind and helps the mind to think and recognize
and decide.
 What Are The Human Enhancements So Far?
• The Bionic Man-Jesse Sullivan
• Braingate--allows a person to manipulate objects in the world using only the mind
• Cochlear Implants and Night Vision and Silent Talk
• Affective BCIs: Electrocorticography (ECoG) and Electroencephalography (EEG)
• Exoskeletons and Flexible Battlesuits-MIT’s Soldier Nanotechnologies
• Reciprocyte-an artificial nano-red blood vessel
• Pharmacological Enhancements. Stimulant drugs-Ritalin and Adderall, used by
many college students to boost concentration and ward off sleep; Provigil, used
to improve working memory and brighten mood; Anabolic steroids ; Viagra;
Aricept-improves verbal and visual memory; Resvestrol– life extender.
What Are The Human Enhancements So Far?
• Cybernetic Enhancements-Brain Implants for unlimited memory and
computing capacity
• Genetic Enhancements : Genetic Modification and the Aryan Race;
hair color, eye color, skin tone, height, weight, facial structure—
Inheritable enhancements; Athleticism, and even IQ, personality, and
other mental traits.
• Nanotechnology Enhancements: Nanobots and Inventive medicine—
postpone ageing.
• Moral Enhancement: ??
 The Ethics of Human Enhancement
• Ethical Issues of Affective Brain–Computer Interfaces: a system that uses
neurophysiological signals to extract features that are related to affective
states (e.g. emotions and moods). Data protection and informed consent,
neurohacking, marketing and political manipulation, inauthentic\fake
emotions
• Exacerbated Social Inequality
• Exacerbated Corporate Inequality at all Managerial Levels
• The Ethics of Autonomy , Choice and Social Life of the first Transhumans
• The Ethics of the Emaciated Family
• The Ethics of the Imbalanced Transhuman
• The Geo-Ethics of the Aryan Race
• Decease-free longevity for the privileged
• Superintelligence for the enhanced
The Ethics Of Artificial
Intelligence