The field of neuroethics is getting hotter and hotter. Trying to determine what ethical issues will emerge from a host of new brain technologies — psychopharmaceuticals, implantable brain technologies, brain imaging — will pose the same kinds of challenges as genetics has over the last decade. In an article in Technology Review called “Picking Your Brain,” Paul Root Wolpe discusses some of the thornier issues in brain-computer interfaces.
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