Engineering ‘Posthumans’: To Be or Not to Be?

• DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.04.011
• Publication Date: 2017-05-15T18:00:13Z
• Authors: Marianna Karamanou; Theodore G. Papai...; Dimitrios Soulis; Dimitrios Tousoulis
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; Humans; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics

Emerging technological innovations have transformed some science fiction ideas into reality, promising radical changes in human nature. New philosophical and intellectual movements such as 'transhumanism' and 'posthumanism' try to foretell and even direct the future of our existence while dealing with new and complex ethical, social, political issues and dilemmas.