Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Surrender Of Policy Bima Gold
the improvement of therapy: homo sapiens refined
Can be used nano-scale technologies to combat health?
While governments, industry and scientists, particularly in OECD countries, are quick to highlight the potential contributions of nanotechnology in the remediation of reduced health, they are also ready to point out that Advances in "converging technologies", nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, neurotechnology and cognitive sciences-will respond to perceived health as less than optimal. It is in the technology field for the improvement of human performance that convergence may have greater impact and higher profits.
is not, in this view, simply remove the disabilities or cure disease, but producing bodies stronger, faster, exceeding the performance of more healthy and athletic bodies today, the brain remodeling to retain more information and to communicate directly with computers, artificial limbs or other brains. An example is the implantation of artificial neurons, already approved by the FDA for clinical use, to replace neurons damaged by Parkinson's disease. The device allows you to download updated software, a computer directly to the implant ex vivo in cuerpo.49 For now, these devices are reserved for those suffering from a disease in the near future will be more difficult to distinguish between what constitutes a disease and what merely is a less than optimal health, or to distinguish between therapy and refinement or improvement.
Every new technology has produced a new group of marginalized people and new inequalities. Faced with the reality of public policy present there is no reason to suppose that this time will be different if the human body becomes the commodified. To the extent that the technology of human performance enhancement is a technology that enables a few, is a technology that disables many ... if we continue as we are, we shall see a new class of outcasts: the non-Doctor actualizados.1 Wolbring Gregor, University of Calgary
As with the digital divide, the gap in capabilities mark over the boundary between North and South, between rich and poor everywhere . For a grand finale, the new refined body created by converging technologies can extend the human life span well beyond a century. According to the U.S. government, technologies converging at the nanoscale "improve human performance" in the workplace, in playgrounds, in classrooms and in the battlefields. Downloadable intelligence, memory, downloadable hiperdesempeño bodies that require a revised definition of our species, Homo sapiens. Or maybe the new technological realities we create the need for a new classification for once and for all (Homo sapiens 2.0), which describes the fraction of the population world can pay for its refinement by technological convergence.
Although relatively few people can afford to pay a full upgrade package, some enhancements, which are possible with the converging technologies will penetrate deeper into society and "naturalize" until people consider them necessary corrections , the same way we now consider the glasses increase. At the same time, there will be a corporate bid to define and expand the range of "health condition" is often treatable, dress up campaigns to "raise public awareness" - to create or expand markets for new refinements available. practice promote diseases to create markets that the deal is called traffic enfermedades.50 Certain personality traits (say, shyness), features (such as strength or height "average"), cognitive features (a intelligence "normal") are deemed undesirable and correctable (and gradually unacceptable). The line between enhancement and therapy, which is already blurred, will be lost completely. The effect is a shift in the perception of what is "normal" and the creation of what Dr. Gregor Wolbring, biochemical and researcher in health issues at the University of Calgary, called a "capability gap" .51 Just as the digital divide, the skills gap distances mark the boundary between North and South, between rich and poor everywhere.
Under current conditions, it is likely that the introduction of technologies for improving human performance or refinement of socially penetrating, have the effect of producing a new group of people marginalized by the "gap" resulting. Some maintain that it is possible to draw a line between therapy and enhancement and that line should be drawn because the distinction will help to take a
For some, this calls for an ethical debate about what it means to be human and how to preserve our humanidad.52 Others argue that given the current configuration of society, can not keep a line dividing therapy improvement and should start a debate that acknowledges the social factors (values \u200b\u200band prejudices, for example) currently contribute to the understanding of what entails being human. Hence the debate, they say, should focus on how, if anything, to protect those who do not currently meet the criteria of the "human"-and those who do not comply with a revised approach in our future refining tecnológicamente.53 Others -the so-called transhumanism, for example, believe that the human species is at an early stage of development, and are comfortable with a malleable definition of Homo sapiens and are looking forward to using available technologies that give them human "best." 54 Can you imagine a world not far from where they discover a "cure" for "medical condition" known as "aging"-perhaps through driving SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible senescence), a series of strategies for negligible senescence "- with which humans could live in good health well over a hundred years.55
recognize that the introduction of ubiquitous technologies could improve the widening gap between rich and poor, do not see this as a compelling reason to limit their use. Consider disparities within society as a problem of old, and lies aside, that was not created (or will be resolved) by refining technology and mejoramiento.56
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