“Direct Brain Interventions to “Treat” Disfavored Human Behaviors: Ethical and Social Issues”  - H.T. Greely. [via] Where ought we to draw the line? As neuroscience learns more about the causes of human behaviors, it will give us new ways to change those behaviors. When behaviors are caused by “brain diseases,” effective actions that intervene directly in the brain will be readily accepted, but what about direct brain interventions that treat brain-based causes of socially disfavored behaviors that are not generally viewed as diseases? Neuroethics, you big studded masked beast..you just keep pulling me back in.

“Direct Brain Interventions to “Treat” Disfavored Human Behaviors: Ethical and Social Issues”  - H.T. Greely. [via]

Where ought we to draw the line?

As neuroscience learns more about the causes of human behaviors, it will give us new ways to change those behaviors. When behaviors are caused by “brain diseases,” effective actions that intervene directly in the brain will be readily accepted, but what about direct brain interventions that treat brain-based causes of socially disfavored behaviors that are not generally viewed as diseases?

Neuroethics, you big studded masked beast..you just keep pulling me back in.

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    Where ought we indeed…
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    I’ve been thinking a lot about this kind of thing lately. I have Borderline Personality disorder, Major Depressive...
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  11. ohgiveover said: I would be upset, indeed angry and disturbed, if this was taken too far. The spectrum of human mentality is so colourfully diverse that it should be first purely understood rather than attempting to tamper with it. Without doing so, we may regress.
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