Editing Human intelligence (section)

===Philosophy===
Efforts to influence intelligence raise ethical issues. [[Neuroethics]] considers the ethical, legal, and social implications of neuroscience, and deals with issues such as the difference between treating a human [[neurological]] disease and enhancing the human brain, and how wealth impacts access to [[neurotechnology]]. Neuroethical issues interact with the ethics of [[human genetic engineering]].

[[Transhumanist]] theorists study the possibilities and consequences of developing and using techniques to enhance human abilities and aptitudes.

[[Eugenics]] is a social philosophy that advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention.<ref name="Osborn1937">{{Cite journal |last=Osborn|first= F. |author-link=Frederick Osborn |year=1937 |title=Development of a Eugenic Philosophy |journal=[[American Sociological Review]] |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=389–397 |doi=10.2307/2084871 |jstor=2084871}}</ref> Eugenics has variously been regarded as meritorious or deplorable in different periods of history, falling greatly into disrepute after the defeat of [[Nazi Germany]] in [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bashford|first1=Alison|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g15rfXUA2i8C&q=eugenics+defense+nuremberg+trials&pg=PA327|title=The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics|last2=Levine|first2=Philippa|date=2010-08-03|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0199706532|page=327|quote=Eugenics was prominent at the Nuremberg trials [...] much was made of the similarity between U.S. and German eugenics by the defense, who argued that German eugenics differed little from that practiced in the United States [...].|access-date=26 February 2020}}</ref>