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    It is not the case that Biomedical enhancements are not less authentic than traditional methods of self-improvement.

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    • 1.If an individual has freely chosen to use a biomedical enhancement on the basis of rational deliberation ('speech and deeds'), the enhancement reflects the individual's agency rather than bypassing it.
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    • 2.Traditional methods of improving one's capacities are considered authentic because they involve active, comprehensible choice.
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    • 3.The same condition of active, comprehensible choice can apply to the decision to use biomedical enhancements.
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    • 1.Authenticity, per Charles Taylor's expressivist account, requires that actions express one's deepest commitments and self-understanding, not any particular causal pathway.
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    • 2.A person who uses modafinil to sustain focus on work they deeply value expresses that value no less than one who trains through sleep discipline.
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    • 3.The causal mechanism producing a trait is morally irrelevant to whether that trait genuinely belongs to the self, as Parfit's reductionist view of personal identity implies.
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    • 1.Sandel's objection that enhancement reflects a 'Promethean' refusal of giftedness presupposes a fixed, pre-social self that liberal autonomy theory explicitly rejects.
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    • 2.If traditional self-improvement through education reshapes cognition authentically, then neurochemical reshaping of cognition differs only in mechanism, not in its relationship to selfhood.
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