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Robots with a hot-line
In the article Robots with a hot-line we raise the question if governments, industries and military intelligence agencies are trustworthy enough to handle the ability to influence a persons thoughts and actions? And do we want any authority to have the means to collect and store our most inner thoughts in a databank?
This might seem like sci-fi right now, but technologies are emerging that would make such a scenario quite real. In this article robots are the link. Sooner or later we will be forced to deal with brain technologies that will challenge our ideas about privacy and autonomy, both for human and non-human lifeforms. So how should we deal with such a scenario?
Nye livsformer og deres plass i samfunnet
I takt med utviklingen av nye selvbevisste intelligente livsformer, som roboter, kyborgere og forbedrede versjoner av mennesket selv, trengs en bred evaluering av loven om menneskerettigheter. En tanke som for mange kan virke fremmed, men som om noen tiår kan være høyst aktuell.
Hvilke sosiale og økonomiske virkninger kan innføring av nye livsformer til samfunnet bringe med seg?
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Kognitive "enhancers", bør de legaliseres?
Diskusjoner raser omkring legemiddelindustriens forsøk på å skape et nytt tilbud til sine konsumenter. Preparater som øker kognitiv ytelse står på listen over produkter som skal prøves ut på markedet.
Bør kjemiske "enhancers" legaliseres? Og er det i såfall riktig at skolen skal ha ansvaret for å dele ut gratis piller til studentene?
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Romancing the fly
Nature Neuroscience pp 54 – 61
Male Drosophila that lack a transport protein specific to glial cells do not distinguish females from males in their courtship behaviour, reports a paper in the January issue of Nature Neuroscience. These results suggest that glial cells — non neuronal cells that provide support for neurons — have an important function in the brain circuitry that underlies mate recognition.
During courtship, male flies typically serenade females. David Featherstone and colleagues find that when the gene for a glial glutamate transporter was inactivated, the males serenaded other males just as enthusiastically. The mutant males did not respond appropriately to male-specific pheromones, being attracted to one male pheromone that normally suppresses male courtship behaviour.
The importance of glial cells in brain function is often underestimated. This particular glial transporter, which the authors named 'genderblind', is responsible for maintaining correct levels of the neurotransmitter glutamate in the extracellular space. Changes in glutamate would be expected to affect the function of the nerve cells that govern mate recognition, though the exact details of this circuitry remain to be figured out.
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