Tuesday, September 11, 2018

TECHNOLOGY, PROGRESS AND ETHICS

As technology progresses, scientists continue to make progress on understanding the human brain and mind. One of the newest approaches is to grow "mini-brains" in the laboratory, a process that is fraught with technical and ethical issues. The following article is a great introduction to this emerging approach:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/lab-grown-brain-bits-open-windows-to-the-mind--and-a-maze-of-ethical-dilemmas/2018/09/02/9a76efee-a25b-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a8489d647653

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