Bioethics of military performance enhancement

Brain Performance Enhancement for Military Operators

Performance of military operators depends on both physical and cognitive aspects. Enhancement of operator performance should therefore address both the body and the brain. This paper focuses on the latter. We provide an extended list of areas where neuroscientific knowledge may be important like training and mental healthcare. We zoom-in on the relevance of neuroergonomics and Brain Machine Int...

Neoliberalising Bioethics: Bias, Enhancement and Economistic Ethics

In bioethics there is an ongoing debate about the ethical case for human enhancement through new biomedical technologies. In this debate there are both supporters and opponents of human enhancement technologies such as genetic improvements of cognitive abilities (eg, intelligence). The supporters argue that human enhancement will lead to healthier and therefore better lives, meaning that any de...

Nutrition and Military Performance

Network Topology and Military Performance

The networks we explore in this paper are generated using the process introduced by Kawachi et al (2004), which alters the topology of a network without altering the number of links. By varying the parameter p, the Kawachi process can generate regular (p = 0), “Small-World” (0.02 ≤ p ≤ 0.1), random (0.5 ≤ p ≤ 1), and “ScaleFree” (p ≥ 2) networks. Figure (ii) shows the values of four network met...

Enhancement of Robust Tracking Performance via Switching Supervisory Adaptive Control

When the process is highly uncertain, even linear minimum phase systems must sacrifice desirable feedback control benefits to avoid an excessive ‘cost of feedback’, while preserving the robust stability. In this paper, the problem of supervisory based switching Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT) control is proposed for the control of highly uncertain plants. According to this strategy, the unce...