Christoph Bublitz
@JCBublitz
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Researcher @UniHH * Law & Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience * Follow me where the sky is blue *no fuss, no fight, no false dichotomies*
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Joined December 2021
In dubio pro futura - a small contribution from legal theory to avert the climate catastrophe. @Christophkw and I suggest that the law may exploit a key topic of legal theory - the indeterminacy of law. 1/
"It is not the ordinary people of the 18th century to whom we must justify today’s actions–it is the people of the future." CHRISTOPH BUBLITZ (@jcbublitz) and CHRISTOPH WINTER (@Christophkw) on "In Dubio Pro Futura" as a novel decision rule for courts. https://t.co/erReZaopGm
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"Reverse algorithmic capture", "epistemic soft authoritarianism"...something to become acquainted with
Today, I published what is probably my most important article in quite a long time. In this piece, I revealed how the Trump administration is covertly manipulating social media platforms & algorithms to boost the administration’s narrative and suppress opposing lines of thought.
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Pleased to have contributed to this UNICEF report on children and neurotechnology ...
Neurotechnology and Children’s Rights – New UNICEF Report I was pleased to contribute to the consultations informing this report (out today):
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Neurotechnology and Children’s Rights – New UNICEF Report I was pleased to contribute to the consultations informing this report (out today):
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Preparing for the future
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Rund 300 Rechtswissenschaftler und Ex-Verfassungsrichter melden sich in einem offenen Brief zu Wort. Sie kritisieren darin den Umgang mit Brosius-Gersdorf, eine "unsachliche Debatte" und "mangelnde Vorbereitung" seitens der Politik. Von @markus_sehl. https://t.co/oqK6nitiaq
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Very honored to give a keynote today on human rights and neurotechnology at UOC Barcelona. @UOCuniversity also interviewed me about neurorights and the future of regulating the human mind..
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New Viewpoint: Countries allowing assisted suicide should offer candidates psychedelics and support to change their minds. If we truly value life, shouldn't we explore every therapeutic option - even controversial ones - before accepting that suffering is untreatable?
Viewpoint: While euthanasia and assisted suicide are increasingly available for psychiatric patients, access to potentially life-preserving psychedelic treatments remains restricted. https://t.co/MpcUktgfqM
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5/ (Our correspondence was intended for publication before negotiations concluded but it remains relevant). Read it here: https://t.co/RtvQknvbk9
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4/ In particular, we think that providing devices or prostheses that restore essential human capacities as speech, communication or movement is matter of human dignity. States should use maximum available resources for making them available.
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3/ ...which are broader than those of the Recommendation. This might be seen as a setback. To avoid this impression, we call on states to use its implementation as an opportunity to live up to their obligations and fill them with life.
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2/While people with disabilities are primary neurotechnology users, the Recommendation focuses more on risks than on potential benefits. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities established numerous important binding obligations of states ...
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1/ UNESCO member states recently concluded negotiations on the first global Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology, to be adopted in November. Our comment in @NatureMentalHlth examines it through a disability rights lens.
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Our freedom of thought research network has several imteresting talks comimg up
This week, on Thursday, 12 June, 12.00 UK time, the Freedom of Thought Network will host two of the editors of the book “Neurolaw: Legal Impacts of Neurotechnology”: https://t.co/IEW8XBbD5z Join us! Register by email: freedomofthoughtnetwork(at) https://t.co/Nxf5Tmc2Mq
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The EU AI Act & Neurotech: Guidelines by the EU Commission suggest that brain stimulation methods might be considered "subliminal techniques"and hence fall under the prohibited practices of Art. 5 AIA (without consent, outside medical treatment). More: https://t.co/B060Ti4cMk
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🔥Exciting news in Experimental Philosophy🔥 Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”. It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles. Editors and Editorial Board below...
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Thank you for coming to Berlin!
Director of our Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, @ebertoni, was invited to be part of a workshop last week in Berlin to discuss and clarify some key issues of privacy and data protection in the context of neurotechnology.
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Wir konnten heute mal wieder eine spannende historische Entscheidung veröffentlichen: Das Urteil des Staatsgerichtshofes zum Schutze der Republik vom 15.03.1923 zum NSDAP-Parteiverbot,
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Die Beschwerden werden verworfen. Die Beschwerdeführer haben die Kosten ihres Rechtsmittels zu tragen.
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Happy new year! Here is my talk at the Chaos Communication Congress, a fascinating hacker meeting with 15k attendees, on law & ethics of BCIs, with a view on future non-medical applications. Thanks @chaosupdates for the invitation and the big stage! https://t.co/rWGO24Z9Uv
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Important. Here's the abstract: Many moral judgments are rooted in the outrage heuristic. In making such judgments about certain personal injury cases, people's judgments are both predictable and widely shared. With respect to outrage (on a bounded scale of one to six) and
New article, just out! THE OUTRAGE HEURISTIC. In honor of Danny Kahneman. (This article was started in the late 1990s.) @BPPjournal @R_Thaler
https://t.co/oS6l5wqqnH
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