What If: Your Mind Can Be Read?

September 9, 2015 11:00

Leaps in brain research have propelled the development of brain interface technologies from prosthetics to attention-powered vehicles, while neuroscientific evidence is increasingly entering courtrooms. What if technologies for reading thoughts, memories and cognitive ability become commonplace?

Join an in-depth discussion that explores the possible, plausible, and probable impacts of advanced neural engineering.

Simultaneous interpretation in English, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese

This session is webcast live.

Speakers:

I-han Chou

Senior Editor, Biology, San Francisco, Nature

P. Murali Doraiswamy

Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Duke University Medical Center

Nita Farahany

Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law and Philosophy; Director, Duke Science and Society, Duke University

Ariel Garten

Digital Member

Thomas R. Insel

Co-Founder, Humanest Care