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(On the topic of Nero cognitive enhancers, H+ magazine interviewing Bruce Katz, Professor at Drexel University)
h+: What are some of the issues (legal, societal, ethical) that you anticipate for such technology?
BK: My own opinion is that - except in the case of minors - we must let an informed public make their own choices. Any government-mandated set of rules will be imperfect, and in any case will deviate from the needs and desires of its individual citizens.
What we in the neuroengineering community should be pushing for is a comprehensive freedom of thought initiative, ideally enshrined as a constitutional amendment rather than as a set of clumsy laws. And we should be doing so sooner rather than later, before individual technologies come online, and before we allow the “tyranny of the majority” to control a right that ought to trump all other rights.
Article: http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/neuro/will-we-eventually-upload-our-minds
h+: What are some of the issues (legal, societal, ethical) that you anticipate for such technology?
BK: My own opinion is that - except in the case of minors - we must let an informed public make their own choices. Any government-mandated set of rules will be imperfect, and in any case will deviate from the needs and desires of its individual citizens.
What we in the neuroengineering community should be pushing for is a comprehensive freedom of thought initiative, ideally enshrined as a constitutional amendment rather than as a set of clumsy laws. And we should be doing so sooner rather than later, before individual technologies come online, and before we allow the “tyranny of the majority” to control a right that ought to trump all other rights.
Article: http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/neuro/will-we-eventually-upload-our-minds