2023-07-14 14:51:32
Published on: 07/14/2023 – 16:51
On July 13, UNESCO organized a conference in Paris on the ethics of neurotechnology. These advances which make it possible to explore cerebral activity as well as to treat or compensate for a handicap (by allowing for example to control a wheelchair) are in full swing. If we can only praise its therapeutic benefits, the ever finer knowledge of our thoughts leads a growing number of countries to wonder about the need to establish a “neurorights” charter.
Are you familiar with neurotechnology? This set of discoveries makes it possible to better visualize, understand or even explore our brain via electroencephalograms, or even by functional magnetic resonance imaging.
They also make it possible to treat by electrical stimulation, or to compensate for a handicap, for example through the control of an exoskeleton.
These technologies are not new. However, their diversion can allow an ever finer knowledge of our thoughts and requires global reflection, explains the researcher at the University of Tasmania Frédéric Gilbert.
It is a building site which mobilizes several countries, including Chile and Argentinaand also circles of reflection, like the Neurorights Foundationinitiated by Columbia University in the United States.
Their concern? Guarantee our freedom by regulating the collection of thoughts and by developing “brain rights”.
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