Neurotechnologies from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Neurotechnologies from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Istanbul, Kadis Has University, 16-17 December 2024
The term neurotechnologies denotes a wide range of devices and systems that interact with the nervous system by either recording or interfering with neural activity. These technologies have been in use for decades in medicine for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The arms industry is another sector with a longstanding interest in neurotechnologies. Recent advances, however, have shown that neurotechnologies possess the potential to become assets in various domains of social life, suggesting their presence will likely extend beyond specific sectors.
Firstly, these technologies hold immense promise for enhancing human capabilities, both physically and cognitively. Scientific and commercial efforts to make neurotechnologies available for enhancement are regularly intensifying. Such a trend may lead to a future where the meaning of being ‘normal’ changes because of the widespread use of neurotechnologies. On the other hand, there is a growing concern that neurotechnologies could be used to monitor and manipulate brain activity. These concerns were first expressed as early as the end of the 1960s, but back then, the debate was based more on hypothetical claims and popular beliefs than solid scientific findings. Nowadays, however, we witness intense scientific research exploring neurotechnologies’ capacities for “mood reading” (though not yet “mind reading”) and for manipulating social behavior. Thus, there are now more solid grounds to fear that neurotechnologies may threaten a social order built on democratic principles.
Should we consider the prospect of neurotechnologies being used massively a threat or a blessing for human social organization? This conference aims to serve as a platform for multidisciplinary dialogue by opening the floor for a debate over the positive and negative aspects of neurotechnologies. The list of topics that specialists will address in various panels and keynote speeches is as follows:
- Neurotechnologies and Human Agency: What is the potential of neurotechnologies to change the way humans perceive their own identity?
- Neurotechnologies and Law: What challenges do developments in neurotechnologies pose for legal systems?
- Neurotechnologies and Diseases/Disabilities: What is the potential of neurotechnologies to overcome nervous system impairments, disabilities, and neurological diseases?
- Neurotechnologies and Ethics: Are ethical principles and the concept of human dignity facing an unprecedented threat because of advances in neurotechnologies?
DAY 1: 16 December 2024
9.30 Opening remarks
10.00 – 11.00 Keynote Lecture
Moderator: Aslı Demirtaş Tatlıdede (Bahçeşehir Un.)
Speaker: Joan Camprodon-Gimenez (Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School)
Neurotechnology and precision brain medicine: moving the focus from populations to individuals
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 13.00 1st Panel: Neurotechnologies and Human Agency
Moderator: Başar Bilgiç (Istanbul Un.)
İnci Ayhan (Boğaziçi Un.)
Virtual Reality, Avatars and Self-Agency
Eylem Canaslan (Kırklareli Un.)
Relational Autonomy and Human Agency
Aslı Demirtaş Tatlıdede (Bahçeşehir Un.)
Unveiling Sense of Agency: Insights from Noninvasive Brain Stimulation
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.00 Keynote Lecture
Moderator: Tuğrul Katoğlu (Kadir Has Un.)
Speaker: Allan McCay (Sydney Un.)
The many implications of neurotechnology for criminal justice
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.30 2nd Panel: Neurotechnologies and Law
Moderator: Sibel Çakır (Bahçeşehir Un.)
Elif Küzeci (Bilkent Un.)
Neurotechnology, metal data and personal data protection
Harry Lambert (CNL – Center for Neurotechnology and Law) (online)
Neurotechnology, Product Liability and Personal Injury
Ozan Erözden (Kadir Has Un.)
How private could brain data be?
DAY 2: 17 December 2024
10.00 – 12.30 3rd Panel: Neurotechnologies and Diseases/Disabilities
Moderator: Hakan Gürvit (Istanbul Un.)
Emre Adıgüzel (University of Health Sciences, Ankara Bilkent Şehir Hospital) (online)
Life Reimagined with Neurotechnologies: The Concept of Ability Laboratory in Rehabilitation
Can Yücesoy (Boğaziçi Un.)
From Biomechanics to Neurotechnological Solutions to the Challenges that Limit Human Movement
Türker Şahiner (Memorial Şişli Hospital)
Which one will we prefer for early diagnosis of neurodegeneration? Digital or Biological Biomarkers?
Hakan Karaş (İstanbul Gelişim Un.)
Digital and Online Connectivity in Psychotherapy
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch Break
13.30 – 16.00 4th Panel: Neurotechnologies ethical aspects
Moderator: Müjde Peker Booth (MEF Un.)
José M. Muñoz (International Center for Neuroscience and Ethics, Spain) (online)
Enforcing freedom of thought and neurorights: the habeas cogitationem writ
Albert Ali Salah (Utrecht Un.)
Computer analysis of human behavior: Ethical and legal issues
Robert Booth (Sabancı Un.)
Can ‘mood reading’, or emotion recognition technologies, ever be possible? A counter-argument
Lütfü Hanoğlu (Istanbul Medipol Un.)
Neuromodulation and ethics
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00 Keynote Lecture
Moderator: Ozan Erözden (Kadir Has Un.)
Speaker: Güven Güzeldere (Harvard Un.) (online)
New Paradigm of Artificial Intelligence and The Law
18.00 Closure
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