[Transhumanism, human enhancement and bioethical challenges of emerging technologies for the 21st century].

Abstract

In this article we start by submitting a definition of transhumanism and then turn to the main bioethical problems that arise from it, with particular attention to the so-called human enhancement perspective. Secondly, and without being exhaustive, we shall seek to identify some of the main challenges posed by emerging sciences in the 21st century, specially with an eye to convergent technologies or NBICs (nanotechnology, biotechnology, informatics and cognitive sciences). And finally, we end up by enumerating some of the bioethical questions every researcher should take into account before considering applying any new technology on humans in the coming decades.