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    Human Enhancement: Fundamentals and Applications
    Human Enhancement: Fundamentals and Applications
    Human Enhancement: Fundamentals and Applications
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    Human Enhancement: Fundamentals and Applications

    By Fouad Sabry

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    What Is Human Enhancement


    The term "human enhancement" refers to the process of modifying the human body using either natural, artificial, or technological means in order to improve one's mental or physical skills.


    How You Will Benefit


    (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:


    Chapter 1: Human enhancement


    Chapter 2: Transhumanism


    Chapter 3: Superhuman


    Chapter 4: Human genetic enhancement


    Chapter 5: Neurohacking


    Chapter 6: Intelligence amplification


    Chapter 7: Nootropic


    Chapter 8: Neuroenhancement


    Chapter 9: Directed evolution (transhumanism)


    Chapter 10: Transhumanist politics


    (II) Answering the public top questions about human enhancement.


    (III) Real world examples for the usage of human enhancement in many fields.


    (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of human enhancement' technologies.


    Who This Book Is For


    Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of human enhancement.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOne Billion Knowledgeable
    Release dateJul 2, 2023
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      Human Enhancement - Fouad Sabry

      Chapter 1: Human enhancement

      To improve one's physical or mental talents, one might undergo natural, artificial, or technology human augmentation.

      Humans may improve themselves in three ways right now: reproductively, physically, and cognitively. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis, cytoplasmic transfer, and in vitro created gametes are all examples of techniques used to improve reproductive success. Strength training (weights (e.g. barbells) and dietary supplements), cosmetic surgery (including braces), drug-induced enhancements (including doping and performance-enhancing drugs), and functional enhancements (including prosthetics and powered exoskeletons) are all examples of physical modifications. Brain boosters include things like nootropics, neurostimulation, and cognitive-enhancing vitamins.

      There are a wide variety of human enhancement technologies under development or in trials. Human genetic engineering (gene therapy), neurotechnology (neural implants and brain-computer interfaces), cyberware, tactics for designed insignificant senescence, nanomedicine, 3D bioprinting, and so on are all examples of such cutting-edge technologies. Human-animal hybrids (in which each cell contains half human and partially animal genetic contents) and human-animal chimeras are examples of less common forms of genetic engineering involving humans (where some cells are human and some cells are animal in origin).

      Several speculative human improvement technologies, such as mind uploading, exocortex, and endogenous artificial nourishment, are now under discussion. The term mind uploading refers to the hypothetical process of transferring or uploading or copying a conscious mind from a brain to a non-biological substrate by means of a detailed scan and mapping of a biological brain and a subsequent copying of the brain's state into a computer system or other computational device. One definition of exocortex is a hypothetical artificial exterior information processing system that would supplement a brain's natural high-level cognitive functions. A radioisotope generator capable of resynthesizing glucose (like photosynthesis), amino acids, and vitamins from their breakdown products is an analogy for endogenous artificial nutrition, which could hypothetically keep a person alive for weeks without eating.

      Many chemicals claim to boost human intelligence via different mechanisms. Nootropics are chemicals that have been shown to improve cognitive function, and they may be useful not just for those with cognitive impairment or other diseases, but also for those who are otherwise mentally healthy. Nootropics have been shown to improve attention, learning, memory, mood, and even physical brain growth in certain situations. Citicoline is an example of one of them, Human enhancement is a contentious issue, as are the methods employed to attain augmentation.

      The use of human enhancement technology has the potential to alter one's sense of self.

      {End Chapter 1}

      Chapter 2: Transhumanism

      A philosophical and intellectual movement called transhumanism promotes improving the human condition by creating and disseminating advanced technology that can significantly lengthen life expectancy and improve cognitive function. The objective of this journal, the first academic publication exclusively devoted to the posthuman, is to define the concepts of posthumanism and transhumanism and to compare and contrast both.

      Transhumanism is frequently linked to the Nazi program to eugenically improve the race, particularly in the media. One of the most vocal proponents of transhumanism, the previously mentioned Sorgner, vehemently refutes this, saying: It is also false to identify transhumanists with Nazi ideology, as Habermas does, because Nazis are in favor of a totalitarian political organization, whereas transhumanists uphold the value of liberal democracies.

      Nick Bostrom asserts that transcendentalist inclinations have historically been reflected in searches for the Fountain of Youth, the Elixir of Life, and other means of preventing aging and death, at least as far back as the Epic of Gilgamesh's quest for immortality.

      The British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane first advanced the fundamental concepts of transhumanism in 1923 in his essay Daedalus: Science and the Future, which predicted that the application of advanced sciences to human biology would have significant positive effects—but that every such advance would initially appear to someone as blasphemy or perversion, indecent and unnatural. He was particularly interested in the advancement of the science of eugenics, ectogenesis (the creation and maintenance of life in an artificial environment), and the use of genetics to enhance human traits like intelligence and health.

      His essay aroused scholarly and public interest. The World, the Flesh, and the Devil was written in 1929 by J. D. Bernal, a Cambridge crystallographer who made predictions about the possibility of space colonization as well as drastic changes to human intelligence and intelligence through bionic implants. Huxley uses these words to characterize transhumanism:

      In the past, human existence has typically been, the way Hobbes put it, nasty, brutish and short; the great majority of human beings (if they have not already died young) have been afflicted with misery… we can justifiably hold the belief that these lands of possibility exist, and that the present

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