Cyborgs, Ratbots & Bionic Humans:
Wiring Brains to Machines
May 9, 2007 (7:30PM)
Michelin Theatre, Discovery Centre,1593 Barrington St.
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Come early. Seating is limited
Jason Scott Robert is Assistant Professor of Life Sciences in the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University. Jason is the co-director of the Human Identity, Enhancement, and Biology Theme of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society and he also works as part of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at ASU.
If you could hook your brain up to a machine that would help you to do more things than you can do now, what sorts of things would you hope to do?” –Does this prospect frighten or excite you? Come to the Discovery Centre to hear Jason Scott Robert discuss some of the clinical opportunities as well as some ethical and social concerns with respect to recent advances in brain-machine interfaces. These concerns include assessing risk-benefit ratios, concepts of disability and enhancement, military uses (and civilian uses of military technology), and questions about what it means to be human.
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