In recent years the humanity saw unprecedented progress in the basic sciences of mind and brain and in the treatment of psychiatric and neurologic disorders. Now, neuroscience plays an expanding role in human life beyond the research lab and clinic. In classrooms, courtrooms, offices and homes around the world, neuroscience is giving us powerful new tools for achieving our goals and prompting a new understanding of ourselves as social, moral and spiritual beings.
What is neuroethics? It’s a field that studies the implications of neuroscience for human self-understanding, ethics, and policy (Steven E. Hyman https://www.neuroethicssociety.org/what-is-neuroethics). Neuroethics has and will continue to illuminate the way in which we reason morally, make choices, etc. What can neurosciences tell us about ethics? Neuroethics, by its name, seems to suggest that neuroscience is relevant for ethical thought. Neuroscience has delivered ethical consequences.
The 2020 Meeting of the FALAN will gather a diverse group of scholars, scientists, clinicians, and professionals dedicated to neuroscience. It is going to be an intellectually stimulating and dynamic conference that explores technologies challenging and advancing our understanding of the brain. We need to talk about neuroethics! We are the responsible to allowed the use of advances in brain science.
Also neuroethics may help us to answer several questions as:
1-Should everything that becomes technically possible be carried out? {Could gene editing ever be ethical? (Chinese researcher Jiankui He of Shenzhen)}.
2-Is it good science just about generating knowledge in a vacuum?
3-Is the context and consequences vitally important?
FALAN is now in contact to The International Neuroethics Society:
https://www.neuroethicssociety.org/about
We need to work together concerning this subject!
