Biohacking
enhancement of human beings with therapies and technologies now available or anticipated in the future
What is biohacking?
An intellectual and cultural movement that advocates the use of a wide range of increasingly powerful technologies to radically enhance human beings
What is transhumanism?
Includes ideas of enhancements vs therapeutic interventions
What is; what is means to make us better?
Is essential to good ethical analysis, various viewpoints and allows for the opportunity to share perspectives.
What is perspective and community?
A normative ethical theory that says that moral behavior should be based mainly on principles.
What is the deontological theory?
Producing organs and tissues for transplanting into humans
What is therapeutic cloning
Belief that God is equivalent to all of reality
What is Pantheism?
Enhancement as freedom of and individual choice or agency.
What is choice?
A "reality check" and is stemmed by things that are most important to us, these are influenced by our surroundings and people,
What is self-awareness and values?
Theory that emphasizes the importance of possible and anticipated consequences in ethical-decision making
Impacts only the individual who receive the treatment, not their descendants
What is somatic genetic engineering?
Refers to a view of salvation whereby one is transformed, or divinized, and elevated in some significant way into the life of God
What is theosis?
Moral revelance of social systemic advantages and disadvantages, resource access, and resource allocation are all issue of justice, a key principle in religion
What is justice?
Process of reflecting on one’s own story from multiple diverging standpoints in ways that try to take into accounts one’s own experience of privilege and disadvantage with intersecting social systems like sexism, racism, heterosexism, and religious forms of oppression
What is self-reflexivity?
This theory asks not what should I do but what sort of person should I be.
What is the theory of virtue ethics?
Refers to manipulating "germ" cells, any changes are passed down generation to generation
What is germ-line genetic engineering?
A progressive theology of formulating doctrine that can be employed in a positive assessment of radical human enhancement
What is process theology?
Advocates for the development of improving and even life-prolonging technologies
What is Proactionary?
Techniques used to treat major depression and aid in recovery after strokes
What are brain stimulation technquies?
Conflict, independence, and dialogue/integration
What are the three basic models of the relationship between science and religion?
Moving new therapies and technologies along slowly, paying very careful attention to possible unknown and unintended harmful side effects and, above all, doing little harm as possible”
What is precautionary?