While researching the dense tangle of legal issues raised by Thomas Metzinger’s neuroethical speculations in The Ego Tunnel, we came across a lucid article by Nita Farahany, whose most recent work explores the difficult philosophical tensions between neurobiology and constitutional law. The entire article is worth careful reading; the passage below has specific relevance for Metzinger’s issues of autonomy, self-models, privacy and state intrusion:
LASS MICH ALLEIN
Desperado Philosophy 