Important advances in sciences and technology render today feasible intervention levels in human nature that were until recently unimaginable. Progress in genetic editing; neuroscientific neural mapping and functioning; device implants; pharmacology; and regenerative medicine – just to remind several among the most relevant fields – are deeply changing our understanding of human nature, nourishing new expectations and transforming social visions about ideal futures and the meaning of human life.The aim of this panel is to give some keys – from philosophy and theology – in order to respond the new challenges and opportunities emerging from such advances.
Chair: • Luis Miguel Torró Ferrero (Pontificia Università Gregoriana)
Panelists: • David Lana Tuñón (Universidad Católica de Valencia) - Lo posthumano como problema. La disputa entre la naturaleza y la biotecnología • Luis Miguel Torró Ferrero (Pontificia Università Gregoriana) - Citius, Altius, Fortius!: The seek for betterment or transhumanist’s anthropological foundations • Marius Dorobantu (Université de Strasbourg) - Is Artificial Super Intelligence preferable to human enhancement? A theological perspective • Lluís Oviedo Torró (Pontificia Università Antonianum) - Human enhancement and engineering: Challenges for Christian Anthropology
