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When brain implants threaten your sense of identity

They want to put an implant in my brain to help with my depression and I keep saying yes then backing out because what if it changes who I am.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The fear that technological intervention might alter the essential self reveals our deep uncertainty about where consciousness ends and machinery begins.

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“Where Are You with Brain-computer interfaces?”

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