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European Public Deliberation on Brain Machine Interface Technology: Five Convergence Seminars

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We present a novel procedure to engage the public in ethical deliberations on the potential impacts of brain machine interface technology. We call this procedure a convergence seminar, a form of scenario-based group discussion that is founded on the idea of hypothetical retrospection. The theoretical background of this procedure and the results of five seminars are presented.

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This project was performed as part of ETHENTECH a, 7th Framework Program (Science & Society Co-ordination Action) funded by the European Commission in 2010.

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  1. Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Teknikringen 78B, 114 28, Stockholm, Sweden

    Karim Jebari & Sven-Ove Hansson

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Jebari, K., Hansson, SO. European Public Deliberation on Brain Machine Interface Technology: Five Convergence Seminars. Sci Eng Ethics 19, 1071–1086 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-012-9425-0

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