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A prescription for smart pills
- tptacek 18y ago"Recent research has identified beneficial neural changes engendered by exercise, nutrition and sleep, as well as instruction and reading. In short, cognitive-enhancing drugs seem morally equivalent to other, more familiar, enhancements". An isomorphism: "Research has identified beneficial changes engendered by exercise, nutrition and sleep, as well as instruction and training. In short, performance-enhacing steroids seem morally equivalent to other, more familiar, enhancements". The problem is that exercise, nutrition, and sleep are categorically positive enhancements. Neuropharmaceuticals aren't. Do we even have data on what happens to large populations of people exposed to them on a regular basis, as they age? Meanwhile, because the playing field is unlevel, people could be induced to use these drugs whether they're comfortable with them or not.