<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # BCI critics love discussing hypothetical future... > BCI critics love discussing hypothetical future violations of autonomy while strangely overlooking the autonomy being restored today. A person who cannot move, type, or speak does not possess some pristine freedom merely because nobody has implanted an electrode. Restoring the capacity to communicate is also autonomy. Restoring control is also autonomy. Any neuroethics worthy of the name has to count the freedoms technology creates alongside the freedoms technology might threaten. **Source:** [[articles/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism, Anti-Science Panic, those Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “BCI critics love discussing hypothetical future violations of autonomy while strangely overlooking the autonomy being restored today. A person who cannot move, type, or speak does not possess some pristine freedom merely because nobody has implanted an electrode. Restoring the capacity to communicate is also autonomy. Restoring control is also autonomy. Any neuroethics worthy of the name has to count the freedoms technology creates alongside the freedoms technology might threaten.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-bci-critics-love-technology-might-threaten ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->