Ethical monitoring of brain-machine interfaces |
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Authors: | Federica Lucivero Guglielmo Tamburrini |
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Affiliation: | 1.Unit S2-Management of the IDEAS programme,European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Technological Development,Brussels,Belgium;2.Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche,Università di Napoli Federico II,Naples,Italy |
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Abstract: | The ethical monitoring of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) is discussed in connection with the potential impact of BMIs on
distinguishing traits of persons, changes of personal identity, and threats to personal autonomy. It is pointed out that philosophical
analyses of personhood are conducive to isolating an initial thematic framework for this ethical monitoring problem, but a
contextual refinement of this initial framework depends on applied ethics analyses of current BMI models and empirical case-studies.
The personal autonomy-monitoring problem is approached by identifying various ways in which the inclusion of a robotic controller
in the motor pathway of an output BMI may limit or jeopardize personal autonomy. |
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