The Mystery of Mental Integrity: Clarifying Its Relevance to Neurotechnologies.
Autonomy
Mental integrity
Neuroethics
Neurotechnology
Journal
Neuroethics
ISSN: 1874-5490
Titre abrégé: Neuroethics
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101468977
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
11
04
2023
accepted:
06
08
2023
medline:
24
8
2023
pubmed:
24
8
2023
entrez:
24
8
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The concept of mental integrity is currently a significant topic in discussions concerning the regulation of neurotechnologies. Technologies such as deep brain stimulation and brain-computer interfaces are believed to pose a unique threat to mental integrity, and some authors have advocated for a legal right to protect it. Despite this, there remains uncertainty about what mental integrity entails and why it is important. Various interpretations of the concept have been proposed, but the literature on the subject is inconclusive. Here we consider a number of possible interpretations and argue that the most plausible one concerns neurotechnologies that bypass one's reasoning capacities, and do so specifically in ways that reliably lead to alienation from one's mental states. This narrows the scope of what constitutes a threat to mental integrity and offers a more precise role for the concept to play in the ethical evaluation of neurotechnologies.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37614938
doi: 10.1007/s12152-023-09525-2
pii: 9525
pmc: PMC10442279
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
20Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2023.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing InterestsJulian Savulescu is a Partner Investigator on an Australian Research Council grant [LP190100841] which involves industry partnership from Illumina. He does not personally receive any funds from Illumina. Julian Savulescu is a Bioethics Committee consultant for Bayer and an Advisory Panel member for the Hevolution Foundation (2022-).
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