You may view videos online of debates about brain imaging. From the Web site of The British Neuroscience Association:
Can functional brain imaging be used to read our thoughts? Should research data from imaging experiments be used in a court of law? These are some of the issues being debated in Scotland at the moment.
Edinburgh Neuroscience has been working with partners from the Scottish Imaging Network - A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) and SCRIPT in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh, to host a series of debates on the ethics of brain imaging technology use.
These discussions ... were held at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Strathclyde, and brought together experts in brain imaging, neuromarketing, law, ethics and
policymaking to discuss what is a very timely issue. The first debate took place at the start of May and asked questions like 'Can functional brain imaging been used as a lie detector test? Can it be used to read our thoughts? Can it be used to assess our consumer or political preferences? Is imaging data already being used inappropriately?', and these talks can now be viewed online by clicking here.
Given that brain imaging data is already being used in Courts of Law in the USA and India, the second debate (which takes place on 7th and 8th June) will discuss the pressing issue of how this information is being used in a legal setting and whether it should form part of a trial and, if so, in what form. 'Should it be used as a lie detector test? Is it permissible to use it in defence of someone's actions, as mitigation evidence during sentencing?' We will be joined for this debate by Prof Hank Greely, Stanford University and Co-Director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project, and Judge Jed Rakoff, District Judge for the Southern District of New York who have experience of these sorts of cases. If you want to follow this debate live online, you can do so by clicking here.
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