Intervening in the Brain: Changing Psyche and Society (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment B

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Author : Reinhard Merkel
Genre : Medical

Summary : The wealth of insights into the brain’s functioning gained by neuroscience in recent years led to the development of new possibilities for intervening in the brain such as neurotransplantation, neural prostheses and brain stimulation techniques. Moreover, new and safer classes of psychopharmaceuti

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Author : Fabrice Jotterand
Genre : Social Science

Summary : In light of the potential novel applications of neurotechnologies in psychiatry and the current debate on moral bioenhancement, this book outlines the reasons why more conceptual work is needed to inform the scientific and medical community, and society at large, about the implications of moral bioe

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Author : Matthew E. Gladden
Genre : Business & Economics

Summary : What are the best practices for leading a workforce in which human employees have merged cognitively and physically with electronic information systems and work alongside social robots, artificial life-forms, and self-aware networks that are ‘colleagues’ rather than simply ‘tools’? How does

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Author : Matthew E. Gladden
Genre : Computers

Summary : How does one ensure information security for a computer that is entangled with the structures and processes of a human brain – and for the human mind that is interconnected with such a device? The need to provide information security for neuroprosthetic devices grows more pressing as increasing nu

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Author : Matthew E. Gladden
Genre : Business & Economics

Summary : This volume serves a resource for the design and analysis of neuroprosthetic supersystems, which can be defined as organizations – either small or large, simple or complex – whose human members have been neuroprosthetically augmented. While numerous other texts focus on the biomedical engineerin

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Author : Matthew E. Gladden
Genre : Philosophy

Summary : This book develops new insights into the evolving nature of organizations by applying the methodologies of posthumanist thought to the fields of organizational theory and management. An emerging 'organizational posthumanism' is described that makes sense of the ways in which forces of technological

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Author : Ray Kurzweil
Genre : Philosophy

Summary : By taking a religiously and spiritually literature approach, this volume gets the heart of several emerging ethical issues crucial to both human identity and personhood beyond the human as technology advances in the areas of human enhancement and artificial intelligence (AI). Several significant que