Implications of neuroscience Psychoactive drugs and identity: between history and culture
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14422/pen.v71.i269.y2015.015Keywords:
neuroscience, personal identity, neuroethics, culture, nature.Abstract
Neuroscientifical advances open the possibility to modify capacities in human beings, aimed to enhance them. An example is neurodrugs. Altering memory, attention or mood can make a difference in personal identity. This question about identity is analyzed and its implications on modification of human nature. This raises again the nature/culture debate, also from the contemporary neuroscience. The conclusion is that dynamism in human narrative identity is the result of an interaction between nature and culture.
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