The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

Written by Nita A. Farahany

Narrated by Rachel Perry

A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next?

Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into their own mind to eliminate painful memories or cure addictions.

Neuroscience has already made all of this possible today, and neurotechnology will soon become the “universal controller” for all of our interactions with technology. This can benefit humanity immensely, but without safeguards, it can seriously threaten our fundamental human rights to privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination.

From one of the world’s foremost experts on the ethics of neuroscience, The Battle for Your Brain offers a path forward to navigate the complex legal and ethical dilemmas that will fundamentally impact our freedom to understand, shape, and define ourselves.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Mar 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9781250880727

Nita A. Farahany

Nita A. Farahany is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke University, and Founding Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. She is a frequent commentator for national media and radio and keynote speaker at events including TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the World Economic Forum, and judicial conferences worldwide. From 2010-2017, she served as a Commissioner on the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is also co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences and on the Board of Advisors for Scientific American. Farahany holds an AB (Genetics) from Dartmouth College, an ALM (Biology) from Harvard University, and a JD, MA, and Ph.D. (Philosophy) from Duke University.

Reviews for The Battle for Your Brain

[sharon herriot · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A great if scary read.
Lots of technical info and info on policy, which is a little dense in places, but overall very readable for the lay-woman.
We all need to know about this movement to establish more neurotech….it is our future and will impact our liberty.

Worth reading for that alone.

[kmbrwhit · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Excellent book. Hugely insightful and well researched. Thank you to the author for pulling this together to get more people engaged in this discussion.