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How cognitive enhancement can change our duties
This theoretical paper draws the scientific community’s attention to how pharmacological cognitive enhancement may impact on society and law. Namely, if safe, reliable, and effective techniques to enhance mental performance are eventually developed, then this may under some circumstances impose new...
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4102166/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25100952 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00131 |
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author | Santoni de Sio, Filippo Faulmüller, Nadira Vincent, Nicole A |
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description | This theoretical paper draws the scientific community’s attention to how pharmacological cognitive enhancement may impact on society and law. Namely, if safe, reliable, and effective techniques to enhance mental performance are eventually developed, then this may under some circumstances impose new duties onto people in high-responsibility professions—e.g., surgeons or pilots—to use such substances to minimize risks of adverse outcomes or to increase the likelihood of good outcomes. By discussing this topic, we also hope to encourage scientists to bring their expertise to bear on this current public debate. |
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spelling | pubmed-41021662014-08-06 How cognitive enhancement can change our duties Santoni de Sio, Filippo Faulmüller, Nadira Vincent, Nicole A Front Syst Neurosci Neuroscience This theoretical paper draws the scientific community’s attention to how pharmacological cognitive enhancement may impact on society and law. Namely, if safe, reliable, and effective techniques to enhance mental performance are eventually developed, then this may under some circumstances impose new duties onto people in high-responsibility professions—e.g., surgeons or pilots—to use such substances to minimize risks of adverse outcomes or to increase the likelihood of good outcomes. By discussing this topic, we also hope to encourage scientists to bring their expertise to bear on this current public debate. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4102166/ /pubmed/25100952 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00131 Text en Copyright © 2014 Santoni de Sio, Faulmüller and Vincent. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Santoni de Sio, Filippo Faulmüller, Nadira Vincent, Nicole A How cognitive enhancement can change our duties |
title | How cognitive enhancement can change our duties |
title_full | How cognitive enhancement can change our duties |
title_fullStr | How cognitive enhancement can change our duties |
title_full_unstemmed | How cognitive enhancement can change our duties |
title_short | How cognitive enhancement can change our duties |
title_sort | how cognitive enhancement can change our duties |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4102166/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25100952 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00131 |
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