Essay “When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy?”
The brain has always been a mystery. The brain is the most complex part of the human body. It was not until the 1880s, when Herman Ebbinghaus first started studying memory, that we started exploring how the brain works. In this day and age, we have obtained incredible knowledge of the brain. To an extent where we have the power to manipulate people’s thoughts and decisions, arguably taking away their freedom of thought. For example, as seen with social media, where we as humans unconsciously are tricked into an addiction. This actualizes a topic where we need to discuss whether cognitive liberty is a human right that needs to be protected before it’s too late. This is what bioethicist, lawyer, and philosopher Nita Farahany explores as she, in her TED talk “When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy?” 2018, explores how the human brain can and has been manipulated by incorporating personal experiences and science-based facts and speculations, and by discussing the rapidly developing technology for decoding brain data and the non-existent laws that restrict the use of such technology.
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