A starting point for discussion
The idea
“Epistemic enhancement” means using a medical treatment or device to improve or add to people’s abilities to gain knowledge, including practical and moral reasoning.
Place in the reasoning
AI assessment · Connected to reasoning
Defines epistemic enhancement as biomedical intervention intended to improve knowledge-related abilities. This supplies background for the conditional enhancement proposal, not evidence that enhancement works.
Proposals to improve people’s abilities and require human review have limits
Defines the enhancement component of the proposed response while leaving its feasibility and consequences open.
What this means and why it matters
What this means
The proposed treatments or devices could include medicines or devices that change thinking or feelings. The idea covers abilities used to learn facts as well as abilities used for practical or moral judgment.
Why it matters
The proposal is broader than helping people remember more; it also concerns how they reason and respond.
Conditions & assumptions
Source coverage: Full readable text of the author’s manuscript from an accessible copy, not the publisher’s formatted version. The passage defines the term and gives examples such as drugs and devices that could affect thinking or emotion. Addresses: The meaning and scope of using medical treatments or devices to improve abilities to gain knowledge.
Questions this connects to
AI-suggested relationships. Authors have not necessarily responded to one another.
Related claims & perspectives
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