Last Straw » Professor Colin Blakemore http://last-straw.net The weblog of Christiaan Briggs Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:27:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Do we want brain scanners to read our minds? http://last-straw.net/do-we-want-brain-scanners-to-read-our-minds/ http://last-straw.net/do-we-want-brain-scanners-to-read-our-minds/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:51:35 +0000 Christiaan http://last-straw.net/?p=3549 assesses the intriguing implications of advances in neuroscience that have made it possible to communicate with those in a vegetative state:
Astronomy, from Copernicus on, has transformed our view of the place of the earth in the heavens. Darwin changed forever our view of the status of humanity. Neuroscience is likely to challenge our very understanding of what it is to be a person.
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