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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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fMRI tracks monkey 'voice' area
Nature Neuroscience pp 367 – 374
fMRI scanning, rarely used in non human primates, has been used to support the idea of a 'voice' area in rhesus monkeys. The technique tracks changes in blood flow as a measure of neural activity, and although it is common in human studies, the need to keep subjects still during the experiment makes it challenging to use on awake animals. In the study published this week in Nature Neuroscience, Christopher Petkov and colleagues were able to track neural activity in two monkeys as they heard sounds produced by their own species, sounds produced by other animals (including other primate species), natural sounds (such as thunder), and scrambled versions of all of these sounds. A region in the anterior superior temporal cortex was found to be activated more strongly in response to sounds from the monkeys' own species than to the other sounds. This finding suggests that monkeys, like humans, may have brain areas specialized for processing species-specific vocalizations.
Imaging study in humans have identified a voice-sensitive area in the brain, but previous attempts to find a similar area in monkeys have produced conflicting results, which had led to the suggestion that such a voice-sensitive area might be specific to humans.
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