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IRPT discussing the implications of Direct Human Brain - AI - Interface System technologies.

IRPT (Information and Research into Progressing Technologies). - Is a research project into the fields of avdanced technologies. The influence it will have on our society and the future of the human race.

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Robots with a hot-line

Access to the human brain

In the article Robots with a hot-line we raise the question if governments, industries and military intelligence agencies are trustworthy enough to handle the ability to influence a persons thoughts and actions? And do we want any authority to have the means to collect and store our most inner thoughts in a databank?

This might seem like sci-fi right now, but technologies are emerging that would make such a scenario quite real. In this article robots are the link. Sooner or later we will be forced to deal with brain technologies that will challenge our ideas about privacy and autonomy, both for human and non-human lifeforms. So how should we deal with such a scenario?

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Nye livsformer og deres plass i samfunnet

I takt med utviklingen av nye selvbevisste intelligente livsformer, som roboter, kyborgere og forbedrede versjoner av mennesket selv, trengs en bred evaluering av loven om menneskerettigheter. En tanke som for mange kan virke fremmed, men som om noen tiår kan være høyst aktuell.

Hvilke sosiale og økonomiske virkninger kan innføring av nye livsformer til samfunnet bringe med seg?

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Kognitive "enhancers", bør de legaliseres?

Pharma_money_s

Diskusjoner raser omkring legemiddelindustriens forsøk på å skape et nytt tilbud til sine konsumenter. Preparater som øker kognitiv ytelse står på listen over produkter som skal prøves ut på markedet.

Bør kjemiske "enhancers" legaliseres? Og er det i såfall riktig at skolen skal ha ansvaret for å dele ut gratis piller til studentene?
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Euthanasia

Euthanasia and the right to choose

Submitted by admin on Sat, 08/08/2009 - 13:44.

Euthanasia

"The euthanasia debate requires us to confront the most basic of human concerns- the mortality of self and loved ones - and to balance the interest in preserving human life against the desire to die peacefully and with dignity ... This controversy may touch more people more profoundly than any other issue the court will face in the forseeable future." - Ninth Circuit Court judge Stephen Reinhardt. 1996 decision on the right-to-die-case: Compassion in dying et al. v. State of Washington.

Imagine, yourself or a loved one suffering from an incurable degenerative or disabling condition, terminal or non-terminal, requesting help to end life. A situation we all hope to never experience, but many of us will have to face. Personal references to belief systems, and life experience might guide us in the process leading to the final decision making of ending or prolonging life. What feels right for one person, might seem unacceptable to another.

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'Death Was His Logical Choice'

Submitted by Thor on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 22:24.

Euthanasia

The widow of a man who took his own life at an assisted suicide clinic says her husband wanted to make his decision for what he saw as the right reason.