Scientists Warn of “Bleak Cyborg Future” From Brain-Computer Interfaces

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Will this take the emotions out of thinking and therefore take the human out of the person?

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This is the crux of the article:

For some of these patients, these devices become such an integrated part of themselves that they refuse to have them removed at the end of the clinical trial,” said Rylie Green, one of the authors. “It has become increasingly evident that neurotechnologies have the potential to profoundly shape our own human experience and sense of self.”

Aside from these potentially bleak mental and physiological side effects, intellectual property concerns are also an issue and may allow private companies that develop eBCI technologies to own users’ neural data.