"Artists and writers have led the exploration of identity, consciousness and memory for centuries. Yet even as scientists sent men to the moon and spacecraft to Saturn and submarines to the ocean floor, the instrument responsible for such feats, the human mind, remained almost entirely dark, a vast and mostly uncharted universe as mysterious as the New World was to explorers of the past."
"Yet as scientists begin to climb out of the dark foothills and into the dim light, they are now poised to alter the understanding of human nature in ways artists and writers have not."
I think that the image that the human holds of what it is to be a human compels us to pursue the paths of improvement and augmentation. Not doing so is unethical in regards to how one perceives himself and her fellow humans.

My memory is ridiculously flawed. What was the article again...uhh...