The Metaverse Virtual Reality

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The idea that I wouldn't have to type, I could just sit in front of my computer and think about sentences and the equations. That's pretty compelling. Mark Zuckerberg certainly thinks so, right? The acquired control labs is developing EMG that is picking up brain activity as it goes from your brain down your arm to your wrist which signals the intention to move or the intention to type. You're just moving your hand as you're in virtual reality,. It's taking that and decoding it into the actual movement in virtual reality.

Every time our brain does some thinking, there are associated physical processes. In particular, electric currents and charged particles jump between neurons, creating associated electromagnetic fields. These fields can in principle be detected with proper technology, opening the possibility for reading your mind. That technology is currently primitive, but rapidly advancing, and it's not too early to start thinking about legal and ethical consequences when governments and corporations have access to your thoughts. Nita Farahany is a law professor and bioethicist who discusses these issues in her new book, The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.

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Nita Farahany received a J.D. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Duke University. She is currently the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke, as well as Founding Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. She has served on a number of government commissions, including the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is a Fellow of the American Law Institute and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was awarded the Duke Law School Distinguished Teaching Award.

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