Human Enhancement Research Paper

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Humans for years have attempted to improve themselves through technology. Whether it is make themselves more attractive through cosmetic surgery or decreased likelihood of hereditary disorders in embryos using pre-implantation genetic testing, human enhancement in one form or another is not a foreign concept. Human augmentation is also known as human enhancement, and it is the application of certain forms of technology to overcome physical or mental limitations of the body.
By this definition, human enhancement entails both the treatment of disease and disability, as well as the upgrading of human aptitude. Additionally, human enhancement is dichotomous in nature: while it heavily implements theoretical ideas by raising important questions about the human application of a diverse array of emerging technology, it also uses applied science and current technology, often borrowing from interdisciplinary scientific fields and methods. Several technologies exist today that can be properly classified as human enhancement technology. In addition to cosmetic techniques such as plastic surgery and orthodontics, there are drugs known as lean mass builders that directly improve physical performance by increasing muscle growth and density.
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Molecular nanotechnology is relevant to human enhancement because of molecular assemblers, theoretical machines that could re-order matter on the molecular or atomic scale to build biocompatible medical Nano robots, by way of positionally-controlled mechanosynthesis guided by molecular machine systems (Barski, 2016). The ability to design, construct, and deploy large numbers of medical Nano robots would facilitate the rapid elimination of disease and the reliable and relatively painless recovery from physical trauma via cell repair. Medical nanorobotics could also allow for the convenient correction of genetic defects, thus increasing

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