AJOB Neuroscience
2023
Andrew Peterson, Emily A Largent, Holly Fernandez Lynch et al.
42 citations
In this paper, we examine the case of psychedelic medicine for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). These "mind-altering" drugs are not currently offered as treatments to persons with AD/ADRD, though there is growing interest in their use to treat underlying causes and associated psychiatric symptoms. We present a research agenda for examining the ethics of psychedelic medicine...
AJOB Neuroscience
2023
Elisabeth Hildt
Can machines be conscious and what would be the ethical implications? This article gives an overview of current robotics approaches toward machine consciousness and considers factors that hamper an understanding of machine consciousness. After addressing the epistemological question of how we would know whether a machine is conscious and discussing potential advantages of potential future...
AJOB Neuroscience
2023
Spyridon Orestis Palermos
It has been recently suggested that if the Extended Mind thesis is true, mental privacy might be under serious threat. In this paper, I look into the details of this claim and propose that one way of dealing with this emerging threat requires that data ontology be enriched with an additional kind of data-viz., mental data. I explore how mental data relates to both data and metadata and suggest...
AJOB Neuroscience
2023
Federico Zilio, Andrea Lavazza
Human cerebral organoids are three-dimensional biological cultures grown in the laboratory to mimic as closely as possible the cellular composition, structure, and function of the corresponding organ, the brain. For now, cerebral organoids lack blood vessels and other characteristics of the human brain, but are also capable of having coordinated electrical activity. They have been usefully...
AJOB Neuroscience
December 7, 2022
Joshua Shepherd
38 citations
Consciousness-based approaches to non-human moral status maintain that consciousness is necessary for (some degree or level of) moral status. While these approaches are intuitive to many, in this paper I argue that the judgment that consciousness is necessary for moral status is not secure enough to guide policy regarding non-humans, that policies responsive to the moral status of non-humans...
AJOB Neuroscience
March 24, 2022
Brett J. Kagan, Daniela Duc, I. Stevens et al.
The development of neural organoids—three-dimensional constructs of neural tissue—resulted in significant advances in neurophysiological understandings, as well raising key ethical concerns. Sawai et al. (2022) discuss the use of these neural organoids, proposing policies to regulate this technology. The most pressing issue arises in the proposed metrics for assessing phenomenological...
AJOB Neuroscience
2022
Laura Specker Sullivan
For more than 20 years, Western science education has been incorporated into Tibetan Buddhist monastics' training. In this time, there have been a number of fruitful collaborations between Buddhist monastics and neuroscientists, neurologists, and psychologists. These collaborations are unsurprising given the emphasis on phenomenological exploration of first-person conscious experience in...
AJOB Neuroscience
March 31, 2020
J. Banja
In the acknowledgements section of her 2019 book Artificial You, Susan Schneider relates that “This book was a delight to write.” (Schneider 2019, 153) It shows. The book is a delight to read. Artificial You is relatively short and, thankfully, without a lot of neurophilosophical jargon. Its primary objective is to present a multi-faceted exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) and its...
AJOB Neuroscience
April 3, 2018
Christian S. Guay, Benjamin D. Schanker
2 citations
In “Pure Experience and Disorders of Consciousness,” Specker Sullivan (2018) proposes that intransitive conscious experience, or pure experience, confers a patient’s moral status. Based on the work...
AJOB Neuroscience
January 2, 2018
Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts
1 citation
"Actual Physical Potentiality for Consciousness." AJOB Neuroscience, 9(1), pp. 24–25