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transhumanism and human enhancement  

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  • Human enhancement encompasses efforts to extend human health, longevity, and cognitive abilities beyond their current biological limits. Transhumanism is the Enlightenment-inspired doctrine that science can accomplish human enhancement and that individuals should be able to use technologies that allow them to live longer, healthier, and more enabled lives. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Transhumanism and Human Enhancement]

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