brain chip

plural brain chips · alternative brainchip

1. A chip implanted in a brain.

   In terms of the use of a brain chip to enhance healthy people’s brain power, another interviewee raised concerns about challenges to human dignity.

   2023, Kiyoshi Murata, Yohko Orito, Andrew A. Adams, Mario Arias-Oliva, Yasunori Fukuta, “The ethics of body modification: Transhumanism in Japan”, in Thomas Taro Lennerfors, Kiyoshi Murata, editors, Ethics and Sustainability in Digital Cultures (Routledge Series on Digital Spaces), Routledge, →ISBN

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   Most shockingly, Delgado wanted to exercise psychophysical control of everybody’s mind using brain chips to suppress behaviours that violate social norms.

   2017, Armin Krishnan, Military Neuroscience and the Coming Age of Neurowarfare (Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs), Routledge, →ISBN, page 208

   Once installed, brain chips could potentially reverse engineer the amygdala by changing the patterned behaviour of neural circuitry as a way of circumventing the neurological sources of traumatic injury.

   2022, Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, Technologies of the New Real: Viral Contagion and Death of the Social, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 39