HONS
1850 Neuroethics – Spring 2019
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edited: March 25, 2019
Class attitudes and goals
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EPISTEMIC
HUMILITY
·
NULLIUS IN
VERBA
The field of
neuroethics
Introduction
William
Safire is credited with
coining the term neuroethics.
A
good reference book is The
Oxford
Handbook of Neuroethics, edited by Judy Illes. It
is available electronically through the Heard
Libraries.
For those who are
interested, here are some other resources
The February 6, 2019 issue of
NEURON published the following
article on neuroethics
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Mind-brain
relations
Basics of brain
function
Linking mental and
neural function
Here are the
items for discussion in class:
Here are a
few other resources:
Perception and
reality
For discussion
in class:
Here are the
publications mentioned in the video:
Consciousness
For
discussion in class:
For further consideration:
Introduction to
ethics
For
discussion in class:
Free will and
determinism
For
consideration before class:
·
Read
the Introduction and Sections 3.1 and 3.2 of Free
Will (Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
·
Watch
John Searle on The
Paradox of Free Will & Determinism
Law-Neuro:
Criminal responsibility
Law-Neuro: Lie Detection & Brain death
Lie detection
Brain death
Class
presentation
Brain-Machine
Interfaces
“The
chemical or physical inventor is always a Prometheus. There
is no great
invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as
an insult to some
god. But if every physical and chemical invention is a
blasphemy, every
biological invention is a perversion. There is hardly one
which, on first being
brought to the notice of an observer from any nation which
had not previously
heard of their existence, would not appear to him as
indecent and unnatural.”
--- J. B. S. Haldane in Daedalus of Science and the Future, A
paper read to the
Heretics, Cambridge on February 4th, 1923
Reading for class
Artificial intelligence & Robotics
Genetics / CRISPR
Personhood
Altered States: Trauma
Altered States: Drugs,
meditation
Neuroeconomics &
neuromarketing
Theology
1.
Do you
believe in God?
a.
38% Yes
b.
62% No
c.
0% Unsure
2.
Do you
believe in a higher power?
a.
46% Yes
b.
15% No
c.
38%
Unsure
3.
Have you
held the same beliefs about
religion, spirituality, theology, etc. throughout all or most
of your life?
a.
50% Yes
b.
50% No
4.
If your
beliefs have changed
throughout your life, were those changes:
a.
43% Major
and significant
b.
57% Minor
5.
If you
changed your beliefs, what
most caused you to change them?
a.
0% Family
b.
0%
Religious experience
c.
0%
Non-religious experience
d.
60%
Science/education
e.
0% Clergy
f.
20%
Something else
g.
20% Equal
amounts of combination
6.
If you
had to identify as belonging
to one religious group (not
culturally, but
theologically), how would you identify?
a.
8% Jewish
b.
8%
Protestant
c.
8%
Catholic
d.
0% LDS
e.
0% Muslim
f.
8% Hindu
g.
0% Jainist
h.
0% Sikh
i.
0%
Buddhist
j.
0% Shinto
k.
0% Taoist
l.
38%
Atheist
m.
31% Agnostic
7.
How do
you use your religion’s holy
texts?
a.
88% For
guidance or inspiration
b.
13% As a
source of absolute truth
8.
Does
human life have an inherent
meaning, beyond what you yourself contribute to it?
a.
33% Yes
b.
67% No
Mental Illness
Language / culture / music