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introduCtion
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The seventeenth-century French architect, physician, anatomist and inven-
tor Claude Perrault (1613–1688) is best known for designing the front
of the Louvre Museum in Paris. But he left another legacy. Eleven years
after his death, a small book was published entitled Recueil de plusieurs
machines, de nouvelle invention (Collected Notes of a Number of Machines,
of New Invention). The book contained a description for creating an
advanced form of abacus, an ingenious calculating machine. This piece of
equipment would, Perrault believed, be of great use to a ‘computer’ – a
physical person who performs mathematical computations. In coining the
term ‘computer’, therefore, he had in mind a physical person rather than
an object.
But history has a curious way of reassigning the use of language. For
Perrault, the person was still the principal calculator, while his machine was
a tool to help the user perform calculations. Though he believed the machine
would have its uses, the person was clearly more capable.
Time, however, has moved on! A half-decent office computer now per-
forms more than a billion calculations every second, selecting data from
many billions of items stored locally on computer disks or chips. As a result,
for some kinds of tasks, the machine can outstrip its master. No longer is it
appropriate to think of the physical person as the computer; instead, the term
is more appropriately assigned to the machine. Moreover, until now, the two
have been discrete entities. On the desk sits a machine – an object. At the
desk sits a person – an agent.
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Cyborg Mind
What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics
- Titel
- Cyborg Mind
- Untertitel
- What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics
- Autor
- Calum MacKellar
- Verlag
- Berghahn Books
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-78920-015-7
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.9 cm
- Seiten
- 264
- Schlagwörter
- Singularity, Transhumanism, Body modification, Bioethics
- Kategorie
- Technik
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Chapter 1. Why Use the Term ‘Cyberneuroethics’? 9
- Chapter 2. Popular Understanding of Neuronal Interfaces 25
- Chapter 3. Presentation of the Brain–Mind Interface 31
- Chapter 4. Neuronal Interface Systems 43
- Developments in Information Technology 44
- Developments in Understanding the Brain 45
- Developments in Neuronal Interfaces 46
- Procedures Involved in Neuronal Interfaces 47
- Output Neuronal Interface Systems: Reading the Brain and Mind 49
- Input Neuronal Interface Systems: Changing the Brain and Mind 57
- Feedback Systems of the Brain and Mind 67
- Ethical Issues Relating to the Technology of Neuronal Interfaces 84
- Chapter 5. Cyberneuroethics 99
- Chapter 6. Neuronal Interfaces and Policy 217
- New Cybercrimes 218
- Policy Concerns 223
- Conclusion 229
- Human Autonomy 232
- Resistance to Such a Development 234
- Risks of Neuronal Interfaces 234
- Appendix. Scottish Council on Human Bioethics Recommendations on
- Cyberneuroethics 239
- Glossary 244
- Index 251