
The Battle for Your Brain
Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
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Narrated by:
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Rachel Perry
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By:
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Nita A. Farahany
A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next?
Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into their own mind to eliminate painful memories or cure addictions.
Neuroscience has already made all of this possible today, and neurotechnology will soon become the “universal controller” for all of our interactions with technology. This can benefit humanity immensely, but without safeguards, it can seriously threaten our fundamental human rights to privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination.
From one of the world’s foremost experts on the ethics of neuroscience, The Battle for Your Brain offers a path forward to navigate the complex legal and ethical dilemmas that will fundamentally impact our freedom to understand, shape, and define ourselves.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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Critic reviews
“Nita Farahany writes with clarity and verve about the promise and perils of the neurotech revolution—offering a fascinating and provocative tour of technologies that have the power to transform our lives for the better and even what it means to be human. More importantly, she encourages a timely global conversation about how to ensure the ethical progress of neurotech to benefit all of humanity.”—Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley biochemist, Innovative Genomics Institute founder, Nobel Laureate for co-inventing CRISPR technology
“Essential reading for anyone interested in neurotechnology and its coming impact on our society. Engineering neural implants to decode the brain seems hard to fathom, but this is easy compared to the ethical challenges that lie ahead. Farahany masterfully navigates the issues that confront us.”—Edward Chang, M.D., Department of Neurological Surgery chairman, University of California, San Francisco
“Farahany poses the critical questions that can guide us as we navigate the hope and hype around neurotechnology, revealing both the promise for patients and the challenge for society. The Battle for Your Brain is a must-read.”—Thomas Insel, M.D., author of Healing, former National Institute of Mental Health director, and codirector of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative
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Important book, unfortunately red by the wrong narrator
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I have a bachelor's of Neuroscience and have studied the topic on my own for many years since then. the current state of neurotek or neurotechnology even at the consumer level is much beyond what I expected it was with clear evidence of Neuromancer like technologies within our lifetimes.
a chilling look @ future neuroscience & free will
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Excellent overview of BCI
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For those of you interested in John Stuart Mill and/or the ethical implications that will arise in a future world where our thoughts may be on full display of our employers and governments, then this book is for you! For people like me more interested in how digital technology is influencing our neural networks, it’s best to look elsewhere!
Concerning performance: the narrator does a fantastic job reading the book and brings it to life for our ears!
John Stuart Mill for the Digital Age
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This book is fun, futuristic, and thought-provoking. It combines story-telling with ethical and legal analysis for and against the use of neurotechnology and the data it generates. It explores the limitations, benefits, and dangers of obtaining and utilizing "brain data" through the lens of technology, philosophy, sociology, and law.
Professor Farahany from Duke University Law School is a leading scholar on emerging technologies' ethical, legal, and social impact implications. She explores the dynamic between the intention of using emerging neurotechnology and its consequences (especially the unexpected but not unforeseeable ones) with both logical clarity and real-life complication.
If you like this book and want to learn about the human brain, check out "A Thousand Brains, A New Theory of Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins (2021) and "Zero to Birth, How the Human Brain Is Built" by W.A. Harris. If you are interested in the application and implication of new technology, check out "Power and Prediction, The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" by Ajay Agrawal, etc. (2022) and "Power and Prediction, The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" by Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan (2021).
A New Frontier for Privacy and Basic Human Right
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