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204 • Cyborg Mind 362. Reid, Letter to Lord Kames, quoted in Humphrey, Seeing Red, 1. 363. Sutton, ‘Transhumanism’, 122. 364. Durkheim’s idea on the collective consciousness are discussed in Giddens, Durkheim. 365. Durkheim, Sociologie et philosophie, 79. 366. Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man, 124–39; Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, 191–212. 367. In this regard, Teilhard de Chardin may have been inspired by the telecommunications super-organism of H.G. Wells, characterised as the ‘word brain’. See Rayward, ‘H.G. Wells’s Idea of a World Brain’. 368. Burdett, ‘Contextualizing a Christian Perspective’, 31. 369. Moravec, Robot, 201–2. 370. Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man; Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man. 371. Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man, 128. 372. Burdett, ‘Contextualizing a Christian Perspective’, 31–31. 373. Ibid. 374. Teilhard de Chardin, Activation of Energy, 380. 375. Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man, 172–73. 376. De Lubac, The Religion of Teilhard de Chardin, 208–16. 377. Greenfield, Tomorrow’s People, 247. 378. Anderson, ‘Argumentation, Symbiosis, Transcendence’. 379. P. Russell, First published in 1983 as The Global Brain and published in 1995 as The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap. 380. Stock, Metaman. 381. O’Brolchain and Gordijn, ‘Brain–Computer Interfaces and User Responsibility’, 168. 382. Ibid. 383. This is a sort of Tower of Babel syndrome. 384. Greenfield, Tomorrow’s People, 213. 385. O’Brolchain and Gordijn, ‘Brain–Computer Interfaces and User Responsibility’, 168. 386. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, xi–xii. 387. The Austrian medical doctor and psychotherapist Alfred Adler (1870–1937) incor- porated the ‘Will to Power’ concept into his own understanding of psychology by suggesting that it is an innate driving force behind every human being’s behaviours and experiences, which he initially defined as ‘striving for superiority’, but which he later characterises as a ‘striving for perfection. See Adler, Understanding Human Nature; Adler, Social Interest, 275–76. 388. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, s. 636. 389. Westin, ‘Privacy and Freedom’, mentioned in Ienca and Andorno, ‘Towards New Human Rights’. 390. Brandon, ‘The Medium is the Message’, 3. 391. Presidential Commission of the Study of Bioethical Issues, Gray Matters, vol. 2, 90. 392. Chan and Harris, ‘Neuroethics’, 78–79. 393. Barker, ‘Health Care/Medical Treatment’, 69. 394. Ibid. 395. Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Technological Convergence, para 9. 396. Barker, ‘Health Care/Medical Treatment’, 69. 397. Exceptions might be Brain Computer Interfaces, which record a user’s brain signals with respect to an external stimulus or with a change in affective state. This could potentially reveal what it was that attracted the user’s attention or could represent This open access edition has been made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of Knowledge Unlatched. Not for resale.