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Enhancing Human Capabilities
Wiley-Blackwell (2011)
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In general, to enhance something is to raise that thing in degree, intensity, magnitude, or in some sense improve upon it.2 In this context, we are concerned with enhancements, ie amplifications or extensions, of human capabilities, ...Author's Profile
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