810: Nita Farahany | Thinking Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

Nita Farahany (@NitaFarahany) is a law professor at Duke University; a leading expert on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies; and the author of The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.

What We Discuss with Nita Farahany:

• Consumer technology that can track, decode, and even manipulate what goes on in the brain is no longer just a plot device in some far-flung sci-fi novel — it's already beginning to come to market.
• An ALS patient recently set a record for communicating through a brain implant at 62 words per minute (in comparison, ALS-afflicted physicist Stephen Hawking was only able to communicate at about 15 words per minute by the time of his death in 2018).
• Though still in its infancy, consciously transmitted brain-to-brain communication has proven successful in the laboratory.
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans can accurately sense political bias from subjects' unconscious thoughts.
• Brain scans reveal that a significant percentage of coma patients who can't speak or move are aware of the world around them and can communicate through electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors.
• And much more...

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