The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

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.

ISBN-13: 9781250339270

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Publication Date: 07-09-2024

Pages: 304

Product Dimensions: 5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)

Nita A. Farahany is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke University, and Founding Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. She is a frequent commentator for national media and radio and keynote speaker at events including TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the World Economic Forum, and judicial conferences worldwide. From 2010-2017, she served as a Commissioner on the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is also co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences and on the Board of Advisors for Scientific American. Farahany holds an AB (Genetics) from Dartmouth College, an ALM (Biology) from Harvard University, and a JD, MA, and Ph.D. (Philosophy) from Duke University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Tracking the Brain
Chapter I: The Last Fortress
Chapter II: Your Brain at Work
Chapter III: Big Brother is Listening
Chapter IV: Know Thyself

Part II: Hacking the Brain
Chapter V: Revving Up
Chapter VI: Braking the Brain
Chapter VII: Mental Manipulation
Chapter VIII: Bewilderbeasts
Chapter IX: Beyond Human

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