Analysis of Chinese College Students' Attitudes towards Cognitive Enhancement in Education

Cognitive enhancement implies that clinical disease-unrelated interventions with new psychopharmacological drugs and technical means raise brain and enhance physical, mental and cognitive functions. Cognitive enhancement drugs are popular with healthy college students in America. Over the discussion of Cognitive enhancement exists, but the views of college students that have been largely absent from the discussion. It is necessary to analyze the attitudes of the college students in China with more and more cognitive enhancement are used in education. The data collected suggest that the college students nowadays in China are interested in the cognitive enhancement and tend to cautiously accept cognitive enhancement for the purpose of education even as they recognize its potential risk. Taken together, these data might be helpful to various ethical arguments which are for and against cognitive enhancement in education. Arguments whether for and against cognitive enhancement have its own reasons. We need interdisciplinary discussion, especially if we seek to the public policy in the future in China.