The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

We continue MIT Press' "What to know about..." series with the new Battle for Your Brain. Imagine a world where your brain can be scanned to learn about your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can testify against you. A world where epileptics are alerted moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into their own consciousness to erase painful memories or cure addiction. Neuroscience has already made all of this possible today, and neurotechnology will soon become the “universal controller” for all our interactions with technology. This can bring enormous benefits to humanity, but without safeguards it can seriously threaten our basic human rights to privacy, freedom of thought and self-determination. The book "The Battle for Your Brain" by one of the world's leading researchers in the ethics of neuroscience offers a way to overcome complex legal and ethical issues. dilemmas that will fundamentally affect our freedom to understand, shape and define ourselves.