Cognitive enhancement and the identity objection

Journal of Evolution and Technology 18 (1):108-115 (2008)
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I argue that the technology to attempt to create posthumans is much closer than many realize and that the right to become posthuman is much more complicated than it might first appear

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Transhumanism and Personal Identity.James Hughes - 2013 - In Max More & Natasha Vita‐More (eds.), The Transhumanist Reader. Oxford: Wiley. pp. 227=234.

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