“I think they will see much of this for what it is: an effort to take advantage of these new technologies to help improve human life,” he says.So long as the improvement alleviates or prevents suffering, it is inherently good … Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University

Similarly, Buddhists would largely accept and even embrace human enhancement because it could help them become better Buddhists, says Hughes, who is an advocate for transhumanism as well as a Buddhist and a former Buddhist monk.Enhancement that extends life and makes people more intelligent “would be seen as good because you’d have more time to work on enlightenment and … you could be more effective in helping others,” he says.Jewish leaders and thinkers from all of the faith’s major movements probably would favor developments that improve cognitive ability or physical strength.“Most Jewish bioethicists have no qualms about enhancement, and they see it as extension of the command [in Jewish law] to ‘improve the world,’” says Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, the director of Jewish studies at Arizona State University.