Kristian Elersic University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract: As a response to the overly-optimistic view of technology, I will present some of the obstacles when using new neurotechnologies, specifically cognitive enhancers. Those obstacles come in a form of physical limitations, such as not being able to develop methods sophisticated enough that they would have no (or minimal) negative side-effects, and in a form of ethical limitations, since even if these new technologies were physically possible, the extent to which we should use these technologies is not fully explored. To fully consider such obstacles, I propose an outline of the ethical framework that should
be used when thinking of applying new, future or even old cognitive technologies. Furthermore, I pose some questions for further analysis of the intertwining of technoscientific progress with social dynamics.
Keywords: Neurotechnology, Transhumanism, Enhancement, Cognition, Ethics The Other Side of Neurotechnologies
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