The Filter Problem for Posthuman Bioethics: The Case of Hyperagency

Roden, David (2022). The Filter Problem for Posthuman Bioethics: The Case of Hyperagency. In: Sands, Danielle ed. Bioethics and the Posthumanities. Routledge, pp. 116–128.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003020707-13

Abstract

This chapter will consider whether bioethics of posthumanity is possible. I will argue that it is only possible if impose transcendental “filters” on posthuman possibility space which stipulate that the forms of posthuman agency and subjectivity do not diverge significantly from the forms we express in folk-psychological discourse (or “belief-desire psychology”). However, I argue that a significant class of highly enhanced hypothetical posthumans – hyperagents – might not be interpretable in folk psychological terms. I conclude that the bioethics of posthumanity remains in a condition of transcendental illusion until we are in more ideal epistemic situation: that is to say, until we are in a position to become posthuman.

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