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Mind Wars

Brain Science and the Military

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This article is based on a public lecture hosted by the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics in Melbourne, Australia on 11 April 2013. The lecture recording was transcribed by Vicky Ryan; and, the original transcript has been edited — for clarity and brevity — by Vicky Ryan, Michael Selgelid and Jonathan Moreno.

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  1. For a more thorough treatment see Jonathan D. Moreno, Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century, New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2012.

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  5. See for example John Hopkins — Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences http://www. hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/specialty_areas/brain_stimulation/tdcs.html

  6. Jonathan D. Moreno, ‘Robot Soldiers Will Be a Reality — and a Threat,’ Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2012, A15

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  7. The report is called the Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies published by National Academies Press.

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  1. University of Pennsylvania, USA

    Jonathan D. Moreno (David and Lyn Silfen University Professor and Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and of the History and Sociology of Science; Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress)

  2. Washington, DC, USA

    Jonathan D. Moreno (David and Lyn Silfen University Professor and Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and of the History and Sociology of Science; Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress)

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Correspondence to Jonathan D. Moreno.

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The author is senior advisor to the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. None of the views expressed in this paper should be construed as those of the commission.

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Moreno, J.D. Mind Wars. Monash Bioethics Review 31, 83–99 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03351549

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