Allan McCay
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Neurorights for computational neurosurgeons
Implanted neural devices promise to relieve enormous suffering, but they also raise questions about privacy, manipulation, and what informed consent can mean for a system that keeps changing. And one day, the neurosurgeons implanting them may need neurorights of their own.
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My brain made me do it: will neuroscience change the way we punish criminals?
Australian law may be on the cusp of a brain-based revolution that will reshape the way we deal with criminals. Some researchers, such as neuroscientist David Eagleman, have argued that neuroscience should radically change our practices of punishment. According to Eagleman, the courts should give up on the notion of punishment altogether and instead focus…
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We need to separate the neuroscience hype from the reality
This article by Sascha Callaghan and Allan McCay, was published in the Sydney Morning Herald, 30 November 2015. Oregon serial killer Dayton Leroy Rogers was recently sentenced to death for the fourth time, after a strongly argued case that the sentence should be reduced to life in prison. Rogers’ lawyer argued that scans indicated damage to…