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Moral Enhancement Using Non-invasive Brain Stimulation
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Darby RR
; Pascual-Leone A
Front Hum Neurosci
2017[]; 11
(?): 77
PMID28275345
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Biomedical enhancement refers to the use of biomedical interventions to improve
capacities beyond normal, rather than to treat deficiencies due to diseases.
Enhancement can target physical or cognitive capacities, but also complex human
behaviors such as morality. However, the complexity of normal moral behavior
makes it unlikely that morality is a single capacity that can be deficient or
enhanced. Instead, our central hypothesis will be that moral behavior results
from multiple, interacting cognitive-affective networks in the brain. First, we
will test this hypothesis by reviewing evidence for modulation of moral behavior
using non-invasive brain stimulation. Next, we will discuss how this evidence
affects ethical issues related to the use of moral enhancement. We end with the
conclusion that while brain stimulation has the potential to alter moral
behavior, such alteration is unlikely to improve moral behavior in all
situations, and may even lead to less morally desirable behavior in some
instances.
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