Public Attitudes Toward Cognitive Enhancement
Public Attitudes Toward Cognitive Enhancement
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DOI：
10.1007/s12152-013-9190-z
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发表时间：
2014-08-01
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影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Reiner, Peter B.
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作者：
Fitz, Nicholas S.;Nadler, Roland;Reiner, Peter B.
关于认知增强的道德规范存在着激烈的争论，但公众的观点在很大程度上缺席了讨论。为了解决我们知识上的这一差距，为了获得公众对认知增强态度的定量数据，我们进行了四个对比小插曲的实验。收集到的数据表明，公众对神经伦理学家确定的四个主要问题很敏感，也有能力理解，并且倾向于谨慎地接受认知增强，即使他们认识到它的潜在危险。公众在生命政治上是温和的，支持精英原则和努力工作的内在价值，似乎对辩论中提出的突出的道德问题很敏感。综上所述，这些数据表明，公众对增强的态度足够复杂，值得纳入政策审议，特别是如果我们试图使公众情绪和政策保持一致。
Vigorous debate over the moral propriety of cognitive enhancement exists, but the views of the public have been largely absent from the discussion. To address this gap in our knowledge, four experiments were carried out with contrastive vignettes in order to obtain quantitative data on public attitudes towards cognitive enhancement. The data collected suggest that the public is sensitive to and capable of understanding the four cardinal concerns identified by neuroethicists, and tend to cautiously accept cognitive enhancement even as they recognize its potential perils. The public is biopolitically moderate, endorses both meritocratic principles and the intrinsic value of hard work, and appears to be sensitive to the salient moral issues raised in the debate. Taken together, these data suggest that public attitudes toward enhancement are sufficiently sophisticated to merit inclusion in policy deliberations, especially if we seek to align public sentiment and policy.