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:
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Fortress of Seclusion
By DP
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