The Battle for Your Brain
Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
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Narrated by:
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Rachel Perry
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Nita A. Farahany
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A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next?
Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into their own mind to eliminate painful memories or cure addictions.
Neuroscience has already made all of this possible today, and neurotechnology will soon become the “universal controller” for all of our interactions with technology. This can benefit humanity immensely, but without safeguards, it can seriously threaten our fundamental human rights to privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination.
From one of the world’s foremost experts on the ethics of neuroscience, The Battle for Your Brain offers a path forward to navigate the complex legal and ethical dilemmas that will fundamentally impact our freedom to understand, shape, and define ourselves.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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Critic reviews
“Nita Farahany writes with clarity and verve about the promise and perils of the neurotech revolution—offering a fascinating and provocative tour of technologies that have the power to transform our lives for the better and even what it means to be human. More importantly, she encourages a timely global conversation about how to ensure the ethical progress of neurotech to benefit all of humanity.”—Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley biochemist, Innovative Genomics Institute founder, Nobel Laureate for co-inventing CRISPR technology
“Essential reading for anyone interested in neurotechnology and its coming impact on our society. Engineering neural implants to decode the brain seems hard to fathom, but this is easy compared to the ethical challenges that lie ahead. Farahany masterfully navigates the issues that confront us.”—Edward Chang, M.D., Department of Neurological Surgery chairman, University of California, San Francisco
“Farahany poses the critical questions that can guide us as we navigate the hope and hype around neurotechnology, revealing both the promise for patients and the challenge for society. The Battle for Your Brain is a must-read.”—Thomas Insel, M.D., author of Healing, former National Institute of Mental Health director, and codirector of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative
The question of self determination being compared to the right to diminish ones own brain alongside arguments of John Stuart Mills, analogies of addiction, ptsd and motorcycle helmet use really push forward the point that the uses of advances of neurotechnology currently risk diminishing individual self determination/autonomy, especially with the targeted attempts to control what is viewed hooking individuals where our attention is the currency.
The arguments of self interest blurring with government interference due to the perception of the government upholding one’s interest is a worrying observation for which consequences can already be seen.
A very fascinating read I enjoyed learning about the US and Chinese approaches, the ways in which one can ‘brake’ their own brain, and the effects of deep brain stimulation. I like the tying in of Voldemorts use of the cruciatis curse on Harry Potter to explain the feared possibilities of losing our minds and government weaponisation of cognitive control.
This book reaffirms the need for balancing the uses of technology as a tool, incorporating ethics guard rails and the need to regulate not only big tech companies but to place limits on the data business model to stop the progression of making our thoughts the new currency such as with some brands using audio/visuals keys to lead to dream synchronicity, it endangers our fundamental freedoms with the limits of individuality being restricted and the theory of mind exploited/manipulated.
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