RT Journal Article
T1 Memory, Neuroscience and Memory Enhancement
A1 Alonso Fernández, Marcos
AB This paper advances a new and updated understanding of memory that should also change the coordinates of the memory enhancement debate. Instead of thinking of memory as a storehouse, we should think of memory from a narrative perspective. This view allows for a better understanding of the process in which we actually construct our memories by elaborating meaningful summaries, rather than adding discrete elements. I argue that this new way of thinking about memory makes most of the memory enhancement technologies we have or will have in the near future much less ethically problematic. The main idea is that (biological) memory interacts with memory enhancement in the creative and re-elaborative way it ordinarily does. To conclude, I discuss some cases to illustrate the previous points.
PB Programmes de Bioethique. Université de Montréal
YR 2020
FD 2020-07-20
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99074
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99074
LA eng
NO Alonso Fernández, M. (2020). Memory, Neuroscience and Memory Enhancement. Canadian Journal of Bioethics / Revue canadienne de bioéthique, 3 (1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.7202/1068759ar
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025