Neurobioethics - Bridging Biological Philosophy,
Neurotechnology, and Medical Ethics
Academic Editor
Denis Larrivee
Advances in the neurosciences,
following on the Decade of the Brain and the recently ended Decade of the Mind,
reflect not merely the pace and evolution of neuroscientific understanding,
but, critically, an ascending mastery over neural intervention, with its twin
prospects for therapy or neuromodulation. Neurotechnologies, for example, from
nanofabrication to interfacial communication, continue to rapidly evolve; yet,
medical insights from mental and degenerative diseases illustrate the brain's
susceptibility to intrusion revealing the crucial need for ethical evaluation.
Normative conclusions attendant on this potential traditionally spring from the
value attributed to human anthropology, which then privileges the neural form.
The complexity of the nervous system, however, continues to cloud the search
for neural correlates of human behavior. Fortunately, synergies among
biological philosophy, neuroscience, and medical etiology increasingly reveal
that global and organismal properties are crucial to eliciting neural form,
like the assimilation of topographical mapping to satisfy the organismal need
for self identity; hence, the significant question for neuroethics is not how
anthropology is shaped by biology, but how organismal requirements mold the
biology that is expressed through human behavior. The book aims a fruitful, and
heretofore unexplored, approach to framing the physical parameters needed to
ethically evaluate neurotechnological and medical intervention in human
cognition.
Book Topics
Topic 1: Identity and
Cognition
Keywords: Deep brain stimulation, Machine-human prostheses,
Embedded diagnostics, Schizophrenia, Personal identity, 3-dimensional body
image, Anthropomorphism, Robotics
Topic 2: Organismal
Unity and Cognition
Keywords: Brain computer interfacing, Motor planning, Motor
image, Parkinson’s disease, Embodied, Perception action coupling
Topic 3: Autonomy and
Protagonist Representation
Keywords: Closed loop feedback, Neuroaddictive technology,
Executive circuits, Comparator model
Topic 4: Awareness and
Responsivity
Keywords: Memory therapeutics, Mental decoding, Sensory
enhancement, Machine human intelligence, Alzheimer’s, Consciousness diseases,
Global workspace model, Classification technology
Topic 5: Social and
Communicative
Keywords: Virtual reality, Social networks, Autism, 2 body
neuroscience, Mirror neurons, Neuroscience of morality
Topic 6: System and
Global State Interactions
Keywords: Electrotherapy, Animal modeling, Epilepsy,
Criticality, Global brain dynamics, Distributed cognition
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