Neuroscience
Chris Chatham at Developing Intelligence posed a few thoughtful questions today on cognitive enhancement.
Sure to elicit lots of interesting answers (mine's long) and he'd like to hear your opinions too, so scoot on over.
It brings to mind a recent feature on brain-computer interfaces at Nature. Their Web Focus offers links to current research in Nature (some free access), streaming video of experiments and discussion with researchers, links to relevant organizations, and archived research and news items.
BPS Research Blog wrote about some of that recent research as well, and mention the important distinction between implants and brain-computer interfaces that use external EEG neurofeedback (example in this video of an EEG-controlled Pong game).
Cognitive enhancement is an important transhumanist issue, along with its impact, the liberty for individuals to choose it, and related subjects. Here's Nick Bostrom speaking in a panel on cognitive enhancement at the 2006 “Forbidding Science” conference at Arizona State University. Video is provided by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies which contributes much to enhance understanding of the subject.
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Neuroscience
Cognitive enhancement and neurotech
Chris Chatham at Developing Intelligence posed a few thoughtful questions today on cognitive enhancement.
Are "cognitive enhancement" technologies overhyped?
If there is real potential for cognitive enhancement, what are the implications?
Would you use a mind-amplifying technology yourself, or if there were "critical periods" for their use, on your children?
Sure to elicit lots of interesting answers (mine's long) and he'd like to hear your opinions too, so scoot on over.
It brings to mind a recent feature on brain-computer interfaces at Nature. Their Web Focus offers links to current research in Nature (some free access), streaming video of experiments and discussion with researchers, links to relevant organizations, and archived research and news items.
BPS Research Blog wrote about some of that recent research as well, and mention the important distinction between implants and brain-computer interfaces that use external EEG neurofeedback (example in this video of an EEG-controlled Pong game).
Cognitive enhancement is an important transhumanist issue, along with its impact, the liberty for individuals to choose it, and related subjects. Here's Nick Bostrom speaking in a panel on cognitive enhancement at the 2006 “Forbidding Science” conference at Arizona State University. Video is provided by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies which contributes much to enhance understanding of the subject.
Tags: cognitive enhancement transhumanism neurotech
- Hard Science, Hard Choices Podcasts
More Science and the City neuroethics podcasts - these are collected as A Slippery Slope: Facts, Ethics and Policy Guiding Neuroscience Today from Library of Congress videos. On May 10-11, 2005, Columbia University medical ethicist Ruth Fischbach and...
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Welcome to the Fourth Edition of Encephalon, a neuroscience blog carnival. Let's talk about psychedelics (or serotonergic agonists of the 2A/C receptor subtype). Jonathan at The Neurophile has submitted an essay on the terminology used for certain...
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies - Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights ...
- Cognition-enhancer Pharmaceuticals: Foresight Report
Here is the Executive Summary of the newly released Foresight report on cognition enhancers:Executive Summary "The search for treatments for dementia, alongside other scientific and societal changes, has prompted the development of symptomatic treatments...
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