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Law and Neuroscience

Autor: Michael Freeman

Número de Páginas: 583

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems, is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice. Law and Neuroscience, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the state of law and nueroscience scholarship today. Focussing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines, it addresses the key issues informing current debates.

The Battle for Your Brain

Autor: Nita A. Farahany

Número de Páginas: 182

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.

Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence

Autor: Woodrow Barfield , Ugo Pagallo

Número de Páginas: 731

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has made tremendous advances in the last two decades, but as smart as AI is now, it is getting smarter and becoming more autonomous. This raises a host of challenges to current legal doctrine, including whether AI/algorithms should count as ‘speech’, whether AI should be regulated under antitrust and criminal law statutes, and whether AI should be considered as an agent under agency law or be held responsible for injuries under tort law. This book contains chapters from US and international law scholars on the role of law in an age of increasingly smart AI, addressing these and other issues that are critical to the evolution of the field.

Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

Autor: Amy Gutmann , Jonathan D. Moreno

Número de Páginas: 427

NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS" From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price. Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per capita on medical care without insuring everyone. A “remarkable, highly readable journey” (Judy Woodruff ) sure to become a classic on bioethics, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die explores the troubling contradictions between expanding medical research and neglecting human rights, from testing anthrax vaccines on children to using brain science for marketing campaigns. Providing “a clear and compassionate presentation” (Library Journal) of such complex topics as radical changes in doctor-patient relations, legal controversies over in vitro babies, experiments on humans, unaffordable new drugs, and limited access to hospice care, this urgent and incisive history is “required reading for anyone with a heartbeat” (Andrea Mitchell).

Free Agents

Autor: Kevin J. Mitchell

Número de Páginas: 352

An evolutionary case for the existence of free will Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose. Traversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice arose from lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate. Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to be introspective, to reason in the moment, and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency. Mitchell’s argument has important implications—for how we understand decision making, for how our individual agency can be enhanced or...

Inteligencia artificial y neurotecnología aplicadas al marketing – 1ra edición

Autor: Andrés Cisneros Enríquez

Número de Páginas: 162

El presente texto desarrolla con precisión los conceptos de inteligencia artificial y neurotecnología, y su aplicación en el mercado laboral y en la mente del consumidor. Comunica la preocupación creciente sobre el desplazamiento laboral de la IA en las organizaciones y elabora una defensa tanto del trabajador como del consumidor en las organizaciones y gobiernos corporativos actuales. El libro describe con dedicación los inicios de la inteligencia artificial y la neurotecnología. Posteriormente, desarrolla con profundidad las implicaciones de estas herramientas en cada sector económico en el que su inminente poder de éxito conquista las nuevas necesidades del consumidor. Además, investiga y analiza el papel de la inteligencia artificial y la neurotecnología en cuatro frentes decisivos de la industria, tales como la medicina, la educación, la tecnología vehicular y la defensa militar. Dirigido a estudiantes de Mercadeo, Psicología, Ingeniería de Sistemas, Administración de Negocios, Administración de empresas y Derecho. Incluye: - Explicación exacta sobre lo que es la inteligencia artificial y la neurotecnología. - Radiografía del poder de las máquinas frente...

Criminal Law

Autor: Henry F. Fradella , Professor In And Associate Director Of The School Of Criminology And Criminal Justice Henry F Fradella

Número de Páginas: 529

Criminal Law offers a unique hybrid approach to learning criminal law. Most textbooks oversimply the law by presenting the "black letter law" for major and defenses, but they rarely present any corresponding exploration of the gray areas that exist beyond the basic rules of law. Conversely, casebooks present numerous edited judicial opinions, often with context. Criminal Law takes the best from each of these approaches by merging textual pedagogy and case analyses into a coherent framework that includes legal history, social context, and public policy. Taking a historical approach, legal expert Henry F. Fradella presents the law as it evolved from English common law and compares it with the modern statutory approach to crimes set forth in the American Law Institute's highly influential Model Penal Code. After providing such comparative pedagogy for each crime or defense, Criminal Law presents 1-2 edited cases that allow the reader to contrast how the "black letter law" plays out in the real world. After each case, a series of questions challenge students to engage in critical thinking about the case and its implications as precedent. Finally, chapters contain a number of...

Propuestas penales

Autor: Pérez Álvarez, Fernando , Díaz Cortés, Lina Mariola , Heredero Campo, M.ª Teresa , Villasante Arroyo, Nathali Janeth

Número de Páginas: 849

Las contribuciones aquí recogidas son reflejo de mucha y muy buena investigación. La originalidad de sus aportaciones recorre múltiples aspectos que las Ciencias Penales reclaman en la actualidad, ante los retos que la sociedad actual y globalizada nos plantea, desde la tecnología, la internacionalización de los ilícitos, el derecho comparado o la nueva delincuencia.

Philosophical Foundations of Law and Neuroscience

Autor: Dennis Patterson , Michael S. Pardo

Número de Páginas: 273

The intersection between law and neuroscience has been a focus of intense research for the past decade, as an unprecedented amount of attention has been triggered by the increased use of neuroscientific evidence in courts. While the majority of this attention is currently devoted to criminal law, including capital cases, the wide-ranging proposals for how neuroscience may inform issues of law and public policy extend to virtually every substantive area in law. Bringing together the latest work from leading scholars in the field, this volume examines the philosophical issues that inform this emerging and vibrant subfield of law. From discussions featuring the philosophy of the mind to neuroscience-based lie detection, each chapter addresses foundational questions that arise in the application of neuroscientific technology in the legal sphere.

Cyber-Humans

Autor: Woodrow Barfield

Número de Páginas: 304

It is predicted that robots will surpass human intelligence within the next fifty years. The ever increasing speed of advances in technology and neuroscience, coupled with the creation of super computers and enhanced body parts and artificial limbs, is paving the way for a merger of both human and machine. Devices which were once worn on the body are now being implanted into the body, and as a result, a class of true cyborgs, who are displaying a range of skills beyond those of normal humans-beings, are being created. There are cyborgs which can see colour by hearing sound, others have the ability to detect magnetic fields, some are equipped with telephoto lenses to aid their vision or implanted computers to monitor their heart, and some use thought to communicate with a computer or to manipulate a robotic arm. This is not science-fiction, these are developments that are really happening now, and will continue to develop in the future. However, a range of legal and policy questions has arisen alongside this rise of artificial intelligence. Cyber-Humans provides a deep and unique perspective on the technological future of humanity, and describes how law and policy will be...

West Virginia Law Review

Número de Páginas: 392

The Right to Oblivion

Autor: Lowry Pressly

Número de Páginas: 241

Constant digital surveillance has inspired a heated but also limited privacy debate. Lowry Pressly looks beyond the narrow discourse of rights and information to extol privacy as a tool for living. Privacy, he argues, not only reinforces our capacities for play, self-discovery, connection, and trust, but also is vital to the search for meaning.

The Law and Ethics of Freedom of Thought, Volume 1

Autor: Marc Jonathan Blitz , Jan Christoph Bublitz

Número de Páginas: 340

Freedom of thought is one of the great and venerable notions of Western thought, often celebrated in philosophical texts – and described as a crucial right in American, European, and International Law, and in that of other jurisdictions. What it means more precisely is, however, anything but clear; surprisingly little writing has been devoted to it. In the past, perhaps, there has been little need for such elaboration. As one Supreme Court Justice stressed, “[f]reedom to think is absolute of its own nature” because even “the most tyrannical government is powerless to control the inward workings of the mind.” But the rise of brain scanning, cognition enhancement, and other emerging technologies make this question a more pressing one. This volume provides an interdisciplinary exploration of how freedom of thought might function as an ethical principle and as a constitutional or human right. It draws on philosophy, legal analysis, history, and reflections on neuroscience and neurotechnology to explore what respect for freedom of thought (or an individual’s cognitive liberty or autonomy) requires.

Gmo Sapiens: The Life-changing Science Of Designer Babies

Autor: Paul Knoepfler

Número de Páginas: 283

This book won the INDIEFAB 2015 Bronze Award for Science (Adult nonfiction).Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) including plants and the foods made from them, are a hot topic of debate today, but soon related technology could go much further and literally change what it means to be human. Scientists are on the verge of being able to create people who are GMOs.Should they do it? Could we become a healthier and 'better' species or might eugenics go viral leading to a real, new world of genetic dystopia? GMO Sapiens tackles such questions by taking a fresh look at the cutting-edge biotech discoveries that have made genetically modified people possible.Bioengineering, genomics, synthetic biology, and stem cells are changing sci-fi into reality before our eyes. This book will capture your imagination with its clear, approachable writing style. It will draw you into the fascinating discussion of the life-changing science of human genetic modification.

The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology

Autor: Roger Brownsword , Eloise Scotford , Karen Yeung

Número de Páginas: 1361

The variety, pace, and power of technological innovations that have emerged in the 21st Century have been breathtaking. These technological developments, which include advances in networked information and communications, biotechnology, neurotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, and environmental engineering technology, have raised a number of vital and complex questions. Although these technologies have the potential to generate positive transformation and help address 'grand societal challenges', the novelty associated with technological innovation has also been accompanied by anxieties about their risks and destabilizing effects. Is there a potential harm to human health or the environment? What are the ethical implications? Do this innovations erode of antagonize values such as human dignity, privacy, democracy, or other norms underpinning existing bodies of law and regulation? These technological developments have therefore spawned a nascent but growing body of 'law and technology' scholarship, broadly concerned with exploring the legal, social and ethical dimensions of technological innovation. This handbook collates the many and varied strands of this scholarship, focusing...

The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law

Autor: Larry Alexander , Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

Número de Páginas: 794

This handbook consists of essays on contemporary issues in criminal law and their theoretical underpinnings. Some of the essays deal with the relationship between morality and criminalization. Others deal with criminalization in the context of specific crimes such as fraud, blackmail, and revenge pornography. The contributors also address questions of responsible agency such as the effects of addiction or insanity, and some deal with punishment, its mode and severity, and the justness of the state’s imposition of it. These chapters are authored by some of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of applied ethics, criminal law, and jurisprudence.

The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America

Autor: John T. Parry , L. Song Richardson

Número de Páginas: 353

The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America brings together leading scholars from law, psychology and criminology to address timely and important topics in US criminal justice. The book tackles cutting-edge issues related to terrorism, immigration and transnational crime, and to the increasingly important connections between criminal law and the fields of social science and neuroscience. It also provides critical new perspectives on intractable problems such as the right to counsel, race and policing, and the proper balance between security and privacy. By putting legal theory and doctrine into a concrete and accessible context, the book will advance public policy and scholarly debates alike. This collection of essays is appropriate for anyone interested in understanding the current state of criminal justice and its future challenges.

CYBORG

Autor: Kuldeep Singh Kaswan , Jagjit Singh Dhatterwal , Anupam Baliyan , Shalli Rani

Número de Páginas: 515

This book provides in-depth information about the technical, legal, and policy issues that are raised when humans and artificially intelligent machines are enhanced by technology. Cyborg: Human and Machine Communication Paradigm helps readers to understand cyborgs, bionic humans, and machines with increasing levels of intelligence by linking a chain of fascinating subjects together, such as the technology of cognitive, motor, and sensory prosthetics; biological and technological enhancements to humans; body hacking; and brain-computer interfaces. It also covers the existing role of the cyborg in real-world applications and offers a thorough introduction to cybernetic organisms, an exciting emerging field at the interface of the computer, engineering, mathematical, and physical sciences. Academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, and engineers that are interested in the advancements in artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and applications of human-computer in the real world will find this book very interesting.

Searching Minds by Scanning Brains

Autor: Marc Jonathan Blitz

Número de Páginas: 145

This book examines the ethical and legal challenges presented by modern techniques of memory retrieval, especially within the context of potential use by the US government in courts of law. Specifically, Marc Blitz discusses the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and the Fifth Amendment's self-incrimination clause. He also argues that we should pay close attention to another constitutional provision that individuals generally don’t think of as protecting their privacy: The First Amendment’s freedom of speech. First Amendment values also protect our freedom of thought, and this—not simply our privacy—is what is at stake if government engaged in excessive monitoring of our minds.

Biotech Juggernaut

Autor: Tina Stevens , Stuart Newman

Número de Páginas: 241

Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species and to extend the commercial reach of synthetic biology or "extreme genetic engineering." In 1980, legal developments concerning patenting laws transformed scientific researchers into bioentrepreneurs. Often motivated to create profit-driven biotech start-up companies or to serve on their advisory boards, university researchers now commonly operate under serious conflicts of interest. These conflicts stand in the way of giving full consideration to the social and ethical consequences of the technologies they seek to develop. Too often, bioentrepreneurs have worked to obscure how these technologies could alter human evolution and to hide the social costs of keeping on this path. Tracing the rise and cultural politics of biotechnology from a critical perspective, Biotech Juggernaut aims to correct the informational imbalance between producers of biotechnologies on the one hand, and the intended consumers of these technologies and general society, on the other. It explains how the converging ...

LO: TECH: POP: CULT

Autor: Priscilla Guy , Alanna Thain

Número de Páginas: 295

This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods, at the intersections of popular culture, low-tech media practices, dance, and movement studies, and the minoritarian perspectives of feminism, queer theory, critical race studies and more. This book represents new vectors in screendance studies, featuring contributions by both artists and theoreticians, some of the most established voices in the field as well as the next generation of emerging scholars, artists, and curators. It builds on the foundational cartographies of screendance studies that attempted to sketch out what was particular to this practice. Sampling and reworking established forms of inquiry, artistic practice and spectatorial habits, and suspending and reorienting gestures into minoritarian forms, these conversations consider the affordances of screendance for reimaging the relations of bodies, technologies, and media today. This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars in dance studies, performance studies, cinema and media...

Scientism: The New Orthodoxy

Autor: Richard N. Williams , Daniel N. Robinson

Número de Páginas: 209

Scientism: The New Orthodoxy is a comprehensive philosophical overview of the question of scientism, discussing the role and place of science in the humanities, religion, and the social sciences. Clarifying and defining the key terms in play in discussions of scientism, this collection identifies the dimensions that differentiate science from scientism. Leading scholars appraise the means available to science, covering the impact of the neurosciences and the new challenges it presents for the law and the self. Illustrating the effect of scientism on the social sciences, and the humanities, Scientism: the New Orthodoxy addresses what science is and what it is not. This provocative collection is an important contribution to the social sciences and the humanities in the 21st century. Contributors include: Peter Hacker, Bastiaan van Fraassen, Daniel N. Robinson, Kenneth Schaffner, Roger Scruton, James K.A. Smith, Richard Swinburne, Lawrence Principe and Richard N. Williams.

Finding Consciousness

Autor: Walter Sinnott-armstrong

Número de Páginas: 281

Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients are misdiagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state when they are actually in a minimally conscious state. This mistake has far-reaching implications for treatment and prognosis. To alleviate this problem, neuroscientists have recently developed new brain-scanning methods to detect consciousness in some of these patients and even to ask them questions, including "Do you want to stay alive?" Finding Consciousness: The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage addresses many questions regarding these recent neuroscientific methods: Is what these methods detect really consciousness? Do patients feel pain? Should we decide whether or not to let them die or are they competent to decide for themselves? And which kinds of treatment should governments and hospitals make available? This edited volume provides contextual information, surveys the issues and positions, and takes controversial stands from a wide variety of prominent contributors in fields ranging from neuroscience and neurology to law and...

The Routledge Handbook of Technology, Crime and Justice

Autor: M. R. Mcguire , Thomas Holt

Número de Páginas: 947

Technology has become increasingly important to both the function and our understanding of the justice process. Many forms of criminal behaviour are highly dependent upon technology, and crime control has become a predominantly technologically driven process – one where ‘traditional’ technological aids such as fingerprinting or blood sample analysis are supplemented by a dizzying array of tools and techniques including surveillance devices and DNA profiling. This book offers the first comprehensive and holistic overview of global research on technology, crime and justice. It is divided into five parts, each corresponding with the key stages of the offending and justice process: Part I addresses the current conceptual understanding of technology within academia and the criminal justice system; Part II gives a comprehensive overview of the current relations between technology and criminal behaviour; Part III explores the current technologies within crime control and the ways in which technology underpins contemporary formal and informal social control; Part IV sets out some of the fundamental impacts technology is now having upon the judicial process; Part V reveals the...

Neuroscience and Society

Autor: Sukumar Vijayaraghavan , Gidon Felsen

Número de Páginas: 222

Advances in neuroscience research are rapidly redefining what it means to be human. The absence of the brain/mind dichotomy has, in turn, removed the separation between our brain biology and our sociocultural experiences, raising questions for social sciences to address. How responsible are we, as individuals, for our actions? Do we have free will? Is it ethical for us to peer into others’ brains? How are our collective social cultural norms influenced by our brain function? At the same time, neuroscientists need to develop better intuition about the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research. Close collaboration between neuroscience and social sciences is the best way forward. This book acts as an introduction to these and other issues that lie at the interface of neuroscience and social sciences, using the physiological underpinnings of our decision-making processes as a framework. Examples of topics addressed here are: • Neuroscience and economics • Neuroscience and law • Neuroscience and ethics • Neuroscience and mental health • Neuroscience of religion and humour The book is intended for students of neuroscience and social sciences, as well as...

Brainwashed

Autor: Sally Satel , Scott O. Lilienfeld

Número de Páginas: 190

This provocative account of our obsession with neuroscience brilliantly illuminates what contemporary neuroscience and brain imaging can and cannot tell us about ourselves, providing a much-needed reminder about the many factors that make us who we are. What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI -- functional magnetic resonance imaging -- was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and manipulate voters, determine guilt in court cases, and make sense of everything from musical aptitude to romantic love. >In Brainwashed, psychiatrist and AEI scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld reveal how many of the real-world applications of human neuroscience gloss over its limitations and intricacies, at times obscuring -- rather than clarifying -- the myriad factors that shape our behavior and identities. Brain scans, Satel and Lilienfeld show, are useful but often ambiguous representations of a highly complex system. Each region of the brain participates in a host of experiences and interacts with other regions, so seeing one area light up on an fMRI in response to a stimulus doesn't automatically indicate a ...

Minnesota Law Review

Número de Páginas: 536

Conversations About Law

Autor: Howard Burton

Número de Páginas: 218

Conversations About Law includes the following 5 carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1. Neurolaw - A Conversation with Nita Farahany, Robert O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. Nita Farahany is a leading scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies. This wide-ranging conversation examines the growing impact of modern neuroscience on the law, deepening our understanding of a wide range of issues, from legal responsibility to the American Constitution’s Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. 2. Improving Human Rights - A Conversation with Emilie Hafner-Burton, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of International Justice and Human Rights at UC San Diego. This extensive conversation covers a wide range of topics, including international law, when and why international laws work and don’t work, the...

Fundamentals of Neuroscience and the Law

Autor: Erica Beecher-monas

Número de Páginas: 416

What does neuroscience tell us about voluntary movement? Why is the definition of “volition” so different from that of the legal definition of “intent”? Why are courts dismissing medically accepted mental health diagnoses? How can we draft better laws that are more scientifically based? What can recent advances in neuroscience tell us about the way we apply the law? This volume provides groundbreaking insights into the areas of scientific evidence and the intersection of neuroscience and law, and is the product of a collaboration by two experts in their respective fields. It is a primer for all those interested in neurolaw.

Un mundo en la lavadora

Autor: Javier Sampedro

Número de Páginas: 230

"Un mundo en la lavadora" es el título de uno de los textos recopilados en esta selección que trata de la colonización del espacio, un sueño que acompaña a los seres humanos desde antiguo y que cada vez parece más próximo. Pero esta frase también nos sugiere un mundo en constante movimiento, uno que gira en torno al conocimiento científico, de tal envergadura que a menudo resulta impenetrable para el público no especializado. Javier Sampedro es capaz de digerir toda esa información y ponerla a nuestro alcance de forma amena y condensada. Este volumen, que reúne sus artículos de la última década, muestra el asombro ante la belleza de la ciencia y la elegancia de sus leyes; esa "lógica simple de la complejidad" nos traslada al placer que genera el saber y la satisfacción de hacerse con las herramientas necesarias para desentrañar la realidad. Desde el origen de la humanidad hasta los híbridos cíborgs, de la genómica a las discusiones inherentes a la bioética, de los hitos de la física a las reflexiones sobre la especialización del conocimiento, este libro abarca también las implicaciones sociales de la investigación: la robótica y el empleo, la...

Robar el fuego

Autor: Steven Kotler , Jamie Wheal

Número de Páginas: 354

Descubre cómo los estados alterados de conciencia pueden mejorar tu vida. En este libro rompedor, Steven Kotler, autor reconocido en la lista de superventas de The New York Times, y Jamie Wheal, experto de prestigio mundial en rendimiento máximo y liderazgo, se basan en investigaciones de vanguardia y reportajes de primera mano para explorar qué es lo hace que algunas personas tengan un desempeño y un rendimiento excepcionales y qué podemos aprender de ellas. ¿Por qué acuden más figuras del mundo empresarial y altos ejecutivos a retiros de meditación ahora que en la década de 1970? ¿Puede una droga como el éxtasis ser utilizada para tratar a pacientes con traumas? Resulta que los estados alterados pueden agudizar nuestra capacidad de tomar decisiones y resolver problemas, liberar nuestra creatividad e impulsar la colaboración creativa. Tendiendo un puente entre los extremos y la sociedad en general, Robar el fuego explica cómo la principal fuerza de élite de la Armada estadounidense, los trabajadores de Google y los multimillonarios de Silicon Valley están utilizando los estados alterados (la mayoría no son inducidos por drogas) para promover de manera radical el...

Hollywood Oculto

Autor: Moisés Rojas

Número de Páginas: 593

Nunca leerás un libro como este en tu vida : Hollywood Oculto te hará mirar las películas y la televisión desde otra perspectiva nunca vista antes : “ ... películas, deportes y alcohol ocupaban sus débiles mentes ... mantenerlos a todos controlados no era difícil ...” esto es lo que decía ya en los años 50 el señor George Orwell; y en dicha declaración está basado este libro que incluye alrededor de 100 películas y series desde los años 20 hasta la modernidad en la que analizamos en profundidad todos los mensajes, símbolos y entresijos de la factoría mágica de Hollywood y la televisión . El libro consta de los siguientes puntos: -Política y Propaganda - programación neurolingüística - herramientas que usan para controlarnos a través de las películas - Celebridades & sociedades Secretas - la espiritualidad de las estrellas y directores - Satanismo en el cine y tele - Simbolismo en la tele y los Films - Los Monopolios - La prensa Liberal - La CIA en Hollywood - Directores y celebridades Anti-Illuminati - Maltusianismo Y transhumanismo en películas - Creencias bizarras y enfermizas de la élite - El Sexo Mágico en Hollywood - la invasión alienígena...

ADN. El secreto de la vida

Autor: James D. Watson

Número de Páginas: 676

El fascinante relato completo y puesto al día de la revolución genética. James Watson fue (junto con Francis Crick) el descubridor de la estructura de doble hélice del ADN, al constatar cómo esta era capaz de reproducirse y transmitir las instrucciones genéticas de una generación a la siguiente. Su hallazgo allanó el camino para cincuenta años de logros científicos de extraordinaria importancia. Watson cuenta la historia de esta investigación pionera, que se inició cuando él tenía veinticuatro años, y el resultado es la exploración más exhaustiva y autorizada, al tiempo que accesible a cualquier lector, del impacto (práctico, social y ético) del ADN en nuestra sociedad y en nuestro mundo. La genética tal como la percibimos hoy -con su capacidad, tan inquietante como formidable, para manipular la mera esencia de las criaturas vivas- nació con este descubrimiento. Desde la oveja Dolly hasta los alimentos transgénicos y los bebés de diseño, los periódicos de los últimos años han estado repletos de noticias relacionadas con las implicaciones de su trabajo. Esta edición ampliamente actualizada y revisada incluye nuevos hallazgos en manipulación genética,...

La cuarta revolución industrial

Autor: Klaus Schwab

Número de Páginas: 221

¿Qué es la cuarta revolución industrial? ¿Cómo definirá nuestro futuro? Un libro sobre el cambio de paradigma que vive nuestra sociedad actual por el fundador del Foro Davos. Son muchos los desafíos a los que se enfrenta el mundo hoy en día, pero posiblemente uno de los más importantes sea comprender la nueva revolución tecnológica que está acarreando la transformación de la humanidad debido a la convergencia de sistemas digitales, físicos y biológicos. Las nuevas tecnologías están cambiando la manera en la que vivimos, trabajamos y nos relacionamos los unos con los otros y la velocidad, amplitud y profundidad de esta revolución nos están obligando a repensar cómo los países se desarrollan, cómo las organizaciones generan valor e incluso lo que significa ser humanos. En La Cuarta Revolución Industrial, Klaus Schwab, fundador del Foro Económico Mundial, describe las características clave de la nueva revolución tecnológica y resalta las oportunidades y dilemas que ésta plantea. Las nuevas formas de colaboración y gobernabilidad, acompañadas de una narrativa positiva y compartida, pueden moldear la cuarta revolución industrial para beneficio de todos....

Bioderecho y retos. M-Health, genética, IA, robótica y criogenización.

Autor: Cristina Gil Membrado

Número de Páginas: 538

La mHealth o salud móvil está revolucionando el sector de la salud permitiendo que el paciente participe de modo activo en su cuidado, monitorizando sus hábitos y comportamientos y obteniendo una gran cantidad de información, en ocasiones, personal. En materia de responsabilidad en el uso de aplicaciones sanitarias resulta compleja su determinación atendiendo al gran número de intervinientes. Con la sanidad digital han llegado los servicios médicos a través de la Red. En concreto, la telemedicina genera complejas cuestiones bioéticas y jurídicas. La medicina de precisión o individualizada constituye un nuevo enfoque en la práctica médica que parte del conocimiento de la reacción individualizada del paciente frente a su enfermedad y su respuesta al tratamiento conforme a sus caracteres biológicos. Es necesario contar con un marco normativo adecuado que aclare las complejas cuestiones jurídicas todavía no resueltas. La ciencia avanza a pasos de gigante y, además del progreso que trae consigo la secuenciación del genoma, la clonación es un paso más. Si bien en unos casos, el Derecho intenta ir a la par de los avances médicos, en otros, ni siquiera existe un...

Muerte lúcida

Autor: Sam Parnia

Número de Páginas: 399

De la mano de Sam Parnia, experto internacional en reanimación y experiencias cercanas a la muerte (ECM), Muerte lúcida ofrece una perspectiva revolucionaria sobre lo que nos ocurre al morir, basada en el estudio más extenso jamás realizado sobre estas experiencias. Durante milenios, la humanidad ha buscado respuestas a una pregunta fundamental: ¿qué sucede cuando morimos? Sin embargo, las respuestas han sido fragmentarias y a menudo poco fi ables. En este libro, el doctor Parnia revela que nuestra consciencia no se extingue en el momento de la muerte. A través de un análisis riguroso de datos científi cos, el autor nos guía en un viaje íntimo por la experiencia de la muerte, momento en el que revivimos nuestra vida no solo desde nuestra propia perspectiva, sino también desde la de aquellos que nos rodearon. Muerte lúcida desafía las creencias tradicionales sobre la muerte y presenta la existencia de una experiencia universal y transformadora que va más allá de meras alucinaciones o ilusiones. Con una narrativa apasionante, Parnia invita a los lectores a explorar el profundo vínculo entre la vida y la muerte, y cómo podemos aplicar este conocimiento para vivir...

ChatGPT va nous rendre immortels

Autor: Dr Laurent Alexandre

Número de Páginas: 398

Les milliardaires de l’Intelligence Artificielle ont une obsession : faire reculer la mort. De fait, nous nous dirigeons vers un monde de post-humains immortels. Notre disparition physique deviendrait anecdotique. Subsisteraient notre esprit, nos émotions, nos souvenirs, sous une forme dématérialisée, une sorte d’entité numérique capable de défier le temps. Nos sociétés sont-elles prêtes ? Non. Nous sommes comme les habitants de Pompéi en l’an 79, juste avant l’éruption du Vésuve. Sam Altman, le créateur de ChatGPT, estime qu’en 2038, l’intelligence humaine représentera 0,1 % de l’intelligence totale sur Terre et l’IA, 99,9 %. Nous pensions que l’IA était un outil ou un domestique. En réalité, elle nous succédera.

Technopolitique

Autor: Asma Mhalla

Número de Páginas: 238

Intelligence artificielle, réseaux sociaux, implants cérébraux, satellites, métavers… Le choc technologique sera l’un des enjeux clés du xxie siècle et les géants américains, les « BigTech », sont à l’avant-garde. Entités hybrides, ils remodèlent la morphologie des États, redéfinissent les jeux de pouvoir et de puissance entre nations, interviennent dans la guerre, tracent les nouvelles frontières de la souveraineté. S’ils sont au cœur de la fabrique de la puissance étatsunienne face à la Chine, ils sont également des agents perturbateurs de la démocratie. De ces liens ambivalents entre BigTech et « BigState » est né un nouveau Léviathan à deux têtes, animé par un désir de puissance hors limites. Mais qui gouverne ces nouveaux acteurs privés de la prolifération technologique ? A cette vertigineuse question, nous n’avons d’autre choix que d’opposer l’innovation politique ! S’attaquant à tous les faux débats qui nous font manquer l’essentiel, Asma Mhalla ose ainsi une thèse forte et perturbante : les technologies de l’hypervitesse, à la fois civiles et militaires, font de chacun d’entre nous, qu’on le veuille ou non, des...