Revista de Medicina y Cine
ISSN 1885-5210
BISCAIA-FERNANDEZ, José Miguel MOHEDANO-DEL POZO, Rosa Belén. Neuroethics in frames. []. , 18, 3, pp.249-258. 07--2022. ISSN 1885-5210. https://dx.doi.org/10.14201/rmc.29542.
The rise of neuroscience and neurotechnology seems unstoppable. Each time its therapeutic possibilities and the desire of neuroenhancement become more evident. In this essay we make a descriptive tour of a relatively new hybrid discipline, such as neuroethics, a discipline capable of serving as a deontological framework of the «neuro» professions, also capable of investigating aspects of the human condition traditionally reserved for other areas of knowledge. In addition, taking into account that this «neuro-essentialism» has also reached the film industry, we use science-fiction movies to explain the most important milestones in the neuroscience of ethics, such as the neurobiological origin of free will and moral responsibility.
: neuroethics; neuroscience; sci-fi; transhumanism; neuroenhancement.