Titlebook: Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future; Sean A. Hays,Jason Scott Robert,Ira Bennett Book 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

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Healing the Blind: Perspectives of Blind Persons on Methods to Restore Sight1.3 million (five per 1,000 Americans) are legally blind, meaning that they have a visual acuity of 20/200 or worse in the better eye with correction, or a visual field of 20° or less. Of these, 80% reported having some useful vision, while the remaining 20% have light perception or less. Half of al

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Nanotechnology, the Brain, and Personal Identityentions, this vehicle of change is ever present in history. Today’s technological revolution has allowed scientists and engineers to sprint toward new advancements, but not without pause for ethical concerns. In an age where new knowledge is growing exponentially, it is important to consider the soc

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Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Brain-Implants Using Nano-Scale Materials and Techniquesectronics to neuro-implants improving their therapeutic potential. Especially in view of possible advantages for patients, research and development of nanotechnologically improved neuro implants is a moral obligation. However, the development of brain implants by itself touches many ethical, social

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The Complex Cognitive Systems Manifesto This paper argues that the human cognitive system is almost certainly a partial complex system, and that one consequence of this complexity is that if we try to understand human cognition by looking only for the locally-most-optimal models of all aspects of the system, we will generate models that

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Narratives of Intelligence: The Sociotechnical Context of Cognitive Enhancement in American Politicapsychologist Alfred Binet and the battery of tests he developed near the turn of the nineteenth century to help identify French school children in need of remedial instruction. Contrary to Binet’s stated intentions and beliefs, when his methods were imported to America, they were used to construct t

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Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthyet high, but to get higher grades, to provide an edge over their fellow students or to increase in some measurable way their capacity for learning. These transactions are crimes in the United States, punishable by prison.

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