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The Battle for Your Brain
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology | Nita A. Farahany
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A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next? Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into their own mind to eliminate painful memories or cure addictions. Neuroscience has already made all of this possible today, and neurotechnology will soon become the “universal controller” for all of our interactions with technology. This can benefit humanity immensely, but without safeguards, it can seriously threaten our fundamental human rights to privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination. From one of the world’s foremost experts on the ethics of neuroscience, The Battle for Your Brain offers a path forward to navigate the complex legal and ethical dilemmas that will fundamentally impact our freedom to understand, shape, and define ourselves.
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My top 4 favorite books of 2023:

Nonfiction
"The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology"by Nita A. Farahany

"The Canceling of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott

"Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the NAVY SEALS" by David Phillips

Fiction:
"One Last Thing Before I Go" by Jonathan Tropper

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It would be impossible to overstate how important this book is. Read it.

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keithmalek Here's how it works: Unexpected information can pierce our attention filters by triggering our sensory cortex to pay attention, triggering the brain to release dopamine, which makes the attention that much more rewarding. 7mo
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Jesus Christ! These stupid names are getting out of control!😡

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(Continued)...diagnosis, and that they would deliberately mislead lead them to protect them.

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(Continued)...student's engagement. More intensive brain wave data is sent in real time to the teacher's computer, whose software generates real-time alerts about student's attention levels.

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(Continued)...suspect are trying to start a union.

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Employee wellness programs (continued).

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HIPPA protects individual's identifiable health information in the United States. But it doesn't apply when employers offer workplace wellness programs directly rather than in connection with their group health plans. Without laws preventing them from using the data collected through wellness programs, employers can mine the data they collect, which many do with abandon.

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(Continued)...engagement declines.

Great! So now I'll be hit with vibrations when I momentarily lose focus, which will anger me, which will also be revealed by the technology. 😡😡😡😡😡

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If it tracked my emotional functions in real time, I would be fired in two seconds.😡

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Suet624 I can‘t tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing. 8mo
keithmalek @Suet624 There is nothing good that can come from this. 8mo
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