ABSTRACT
Hinduism is a wide-ranging term with complex and controversial colonial and post-colonial origins. Limiting its scope and canon to Brahmanical and Classical Hinduism makes bioethical speculations possible and plausible. Central to any bioethical speculations is the Hindu concept karma. The causal connections implicit in the concept mean that Hindus may accept particular consequences, situations and scenarios, in this case medical ones, as inevitable or unavoidable.
With regards to neurogenomics, Hindu thought does not presuppose an unbreakable link between the ātman (individual self) and personality. In fact, the personality is believed to be tangential, peripheral and eventually harmful to the ātman. In fact, according to some perspectives, the ātman strives to distance itself from, and eventually to jettison the personality and its cognitive components. This makes many of the potential problems associated with neurogenomic treatment inconsequential if not irrelevant.
