New neurotechnology Capable of Erasing Painful Memories.
According to a leading neurologist; a revolutionary neurotechnology tool that may help humans delete traumatic memories has caused “massive ethical issues” because it threatens to transform a person’s personality artificially. DecNef, or decoded neurofeedback; Developed for PTSD disease. It measures different shifts in the brain, such as the amount of oxygen in the blood, using an electromagnet similar to that used in an MRI scanner. The data from the scanner is sent in real-time to an artificially intelligent imagine learning agent, the maps which parts of the brain are involved when those memories are triggered.
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Statement of Aurelio Cortese regarding New Neurotechnology
The AI part, according to Aurelio Cortese; a computational neuroscientist and principal investigator of the ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs; Machine learning is used to learning the neuronal representation of the desired conceptual representation in the first place; which is crucial to understanding what’s going on in the human brain. The second phase of DecNef is to track the regions of the brain where these “painful” memories are active; as well as to show the patient how to control the stimulus’s effects. The memories, according to Cortese; are not ages. but DecNef helps the patient to monitor and block the brain’s normal reaction.
Today, our brain controls our muscles which moves our mouse/keyboard which control our computers.
We used machine learning to skip the mouse and keyboard so that we can control computers using our intentions. This allows us to do some unimagined things using neurotechnology 🧠🖥 pic.twitter.com/xbmoe1SSwZ
— CTRL-labs (@CTRLlabsCo) December 17, 2018
According to Hillel Adesnik’s regarding New Neurotechnology
This holographic technique “is one of the first steps on a long journey toward developing a device that could be a simulated brain implant with extra senses or augmented senses;” projected Alan Mardinly, a postdoctoral fellow in Hillel Adesnik’s UC Berkeley lab. Philipp Kellmeyer, a neurologist and the director of the Neuroethics and A.I. Ethics Lab, disagrees. However, Philipp Kellmeyer, a neurologist and head of the University of Freiburg’s Neuroethics & A.I. Ethics Lab, is concerned about how DecNef could be used in the future. He claims that targeted memory alteration or suppression could entail “the risk of interfering with a person’s identity.”
