- “Neurotechnology seems like it’s on a collision course with freedom of thought.”
- “In your book, you talk about this specific neurotech technique, DecNef, that can potentially be used to process traumatic memory. A person sits inside a scanner and recalls a traumatic memory. Machine learning algorithms map the areas of the brain that activate, and then the person basically erases those memories through a process of neural feedback.”
- “But neurotechnology can also seriously threaten privacy and freedom of thought. In China, the government is mining data from some employees’ brains by having them wear caps that scan their brainwaves for anxiety, rage, or fatigue.”
- “I want to underline that treating PTSD or depression is not the same as eliminating suffering. We should absolutely treat things like PTSD or depression. But I’m really not sure about the quest to eliminate suffering, as some people want to do in the transhumanist movement the movement that’s all about using tech to usher in a new phase of human evolution.
- You ask in your book: “If your brain had a switch to turn off suffering, would you use it?” I wouldn’t.”
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