"Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind," wrote the playwright John Milton in 1634.
But, nearly 400 years later, technological advances in machines that can read our thoughts mean the privacy of our brain is under threat.
Now two biomedical ethicists are calling for the creation of new human rights laws to ensure people are protected, including "the right to cognitive liberty" and "the right to mental integrity".
Scientists have already developed devices capable of telling whether people are politically right-wing or left-wing. In one experiment, researchers were able to read people's minds to tell with 70 per cent accuracy whether they planned to add or subtract two numbers.
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Monday May 15 2017, @09:00PM (1 child)
Don't forget the various psychiatric drugs. Antidepressants. Antipsychotics. Those most certainly change how you think.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @02:46AM
We need an established right to make, use, and share psychedelics. Until that happens, these ethics clowns can fuck off back to the Matrix.