Cochlear Implantation, Enhancements, Transhumanism and Posthumanism: Some Human Questions

Lee, Joseph

doi:10.1007/s11948-015-9640-6

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“…A large amount of work raises concerns or suggests the possibility of the impact of BCI on sense of identity, autonomy and self. Further work discussing these issues are Klein et al (2015), Clausen (2011), Glannon and Ineichen (2016), Moritz et al (2016), Trimper et al (2014), Tamburrini (2009), Nijboer et al (2013), Gilbert and Cook (2015), Clausen et al (2017), Goering et al (2017), Hongladarom (2015), McCullagh et al (2014), Kotchetkov et al (2010), Kyselo (2013), Hildt (2011), Abbott and Peck (2017), Jebari (2013), Vlek et al (2012), Heersmink (2013), Lee (2016), Jebari and Hansson (2013), Racine et al (2017).…”

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Embodiment and Estrangement: Results from a First-in-Human “Intelligent BCI” Trial

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While new generations of implantable brain computer interface (BCI) devices are being developed, evidence in the literature about their impact on the patient experience is lagging. In this article, we address this knowledge gap by analysing data from the first-in-human clinical trial to study patients with implanted BCI advisory devices. We explored perceptions of self-change across six patients who volunteered to be implanted with artificially intelligent BCI devices. We used qualitative methodological tools grounded in phenomenology to conduct in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Results show that, on the one hand, BCIs can positively increase a sense of the self and control; on the other hand, they can induce radical distress, feelings of loss of control, and a rupture of patient identity. We conclude by offering suggestions for the proactive creation of preparedness protocols specific to intelligent-predictive and advisory-BCI technologies essential to prevent potential iatrogenic harms.

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“…Using cochlear implants as an analogy it can be argued that we are already cyborgs, but also that future enhancements can be resisted (as the deaf community has resisted cochlear implants) and that such enhancements need extra measures in order to respect persons who for various reasons do not want to be enhanced [ 55 ].…”

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Limits to human enhancement: nature, disease, therapy or betterment?

Hofmann

2017

BMC Med Ethics

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BackgroundNew technologies facilitate the enhancement of a wide range of human dispositions, capacities, or abilities. While it is argued that we need to set limits to human enhancement, it is unclear where we should find resources to set such limits.DiscussionTraditional routes for setting limits, such as referring to nature, the therapy-enhancement distinction, and the health-disease distinction, turn out to have some shortcomings. However, upon closer scrutiny the concept of enhancement is based on vague conceptions of what is to be enhanced. Explaining why it is better to become older, stronger, and more intelligent presupposes a clear conception of goodness, which is seldom provided. In particular, the qualitative better is frequently confused with the quantitative more. We may therefore not need “external” measures for setting its limits – they are available in the concept of enhancement itself.SummaryWhile there may be shortcomings in traditional sources of limit setting to human enhancement, such as nature, therapy, and disease, such approaches may not be necessary. The specification-of-betterment problem inherent in the conception of human enhancement itself provides means to restrict its unwarranted proliferation. We only need to demand clear, sustainable, obtainable goals for enhancement that are based on evidence, and not on lofty speculations, hypes, analogies, or weak associations. Human enhancements that specify what will become better, and provide adequate evidence, are good and should be pursued. Others should not be accepted.

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“…Rehabilitation methodologies of the deaf children may also raise discussion with parents. The therapeutic alliance with the family requires moral and ethical issues to be made plain 25 .…”

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Adattamento precoce dell’impianto cocleare in età pediatrica

Orzan

Muzzi

Marchi

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Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital

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L’impianto cocleare costituisce una valida opportunità per fornire l’accesso alla stimolazione uditiva nei casi di ipoacusia severa o profonda di origine cocleare. E’ stato ampiamente dimostrato che l’impianto cocleare è una soluzione sicura ed efficace e che la precocità nell’attivazione è associata a risultati migliori. E’ importante studiare le variabili e gli aspetti che possono interferire con un adattamento precoce e un adeguato accesso al mondo sonoro: caratteristiche del bambino, alleanza terapeutica con la famiglia, aspetti tecnici, medici e organizzativi. Obiettivo di questo lavoro è quello di proporre raccomandazioni utili per gli aspetti organizzativi-pratici relativi alle attivazioni precoci di impianto cocleare, attraverso un particolare modello di analisi SWOT e TOWS.

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Cochlear Implantation, Enhancements, Transhumanism and Posthumanism: Some Human Questions

Cited by 25 publications

References 80 publications

Embodiment and Estrangement: Results from a First-in-Human “Intelligent BCI” Trial

Embodiment and Estrangement: Results from a First-in-Human “Intelligent BCI” Trial

Limits to human enhancement: nature, disease, therapy or betterment?

Adattamento precoce dell’impianto cocleare in età pediatrica

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