Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: At the crossroads of science, science fiction has given us a thousand visions of what humans might become.Are we truly on the brink of altering our genetic heritage and transforming our human species, especially with the pushing of scientific boundaries beyond the life sciences and human studies, from discovery and exploration of thought processes to the capability of correcting nature's flaws or replacing them entirely?This signifies a desire to invent a humanity that fits our technological age and praises the Nietzschean Übermensch, directed towards controlling the code of life through the advocacy of smart technology usage, or what is known as artificial intelligence.This opens up possibilities for intervening in the human genome and reprogramming it as a project for manufacturing human genes.But does this lead to the dismantling of humanity, or does it pertain to the emergence of a new form of humanity?Especially after the technological revolution that extends its knowledge and technical capabilities alongside genomics, heralding a post-human result, as a sign for a being beyond human, by reshaping it as is done with machines.This reductionist treatment is an acknowledgment of a new humanity, making individual life the 1
DOI: 10.56334/sei/8.3.27
Author: Messaad Asma
Institution: Université Mustapha Stambouli de Mascara
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4410058441