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Modifying Apes to Become Citizens

September 16, 2006

IEET Fellow Dvorsky has argued in “All Together Now” that humans are morally obliged to use cognitive enhancement technologies, when available, to make apes smart enough to be equal citizens in human/ape society. We discuss the argument.

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