Morality altered by brain stimulation

[Ironside]

I'm not suggesting you think we should start making "brain hats" but you have to acknowledge the massive danger this sort of technology has.

But the technology is already known and also the basic concept. What is researched here is what a certain brain center does and what happens if it's damaged.

You can't equate passive observation with intervention.

Volonteers that are exposed to a temporary condition, compared to observing someone with a permanent condition, who cannot give their permission?

Much more concrete than that, there's no need invoke an "angry God".

Hey, I like my excuse of making a SMAC referense.

Some technology isn't worth having, nuclear being one, and the overall benefits outweigh the costs. Nuclear technology very nearly destroyed us all, still threatens us, and the power plants serve as a sop to prevent the development of truly useful renewable energy.

Hardly. The power plants would've been replaced by (most likely) coal at the time they were built and should they start build more nuclear power plants nowaday, it would not be enough anyway, so truly useful renewable energy is still needed to be developed. Besides the current holy grail of energy, fusion power is based on nuclear power. And without nuclear energy, the apex of energy development would be solar, forever. So for example, we can scrap ever reaching efficient space travel, even within the solar system.


PBI do you know what would happen if such a micro black hole meet an electron? Since the hole is much smaller than the electron, I'm curious if it's even possible for the hole to absorb mass.