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We are in the early stages of neural computing and have time to think through these issues. We must do so before products like the “Nyooro” move from science fiction to the shops. Shutterstock In silicon computers, electrical signals travel…

An interlude follows in which I consider how aspects of psychology can be conceived of as superstitious rituals which draw their authority from the epistemic dominance of science. I position the various uses of psychology within an epistemic landscape of…

One reason doctors are frustrated at providing critical care resources to those who failed to get vaccinated is because it seems like those patients are ‘free-riding’. The unvaccinated enjoy the benefits of having high levels of vaccination in society, but…

John Bickle, Mississippi State University and University of Mississippi Medical Center The chapter’s fundamental conclusion is that the new experiment tools on whose use our best current theories in neurobiology depend are themselves the product of atheoretical laboratory “tinkering”: “fooling…

Julian Savulescu, Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford; Dominic Wilkinson, Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford, and Jonathan…

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