{"id":130787,"date":"2021-11-18T00:24:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T08:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/what-are-the-ethics-of-an-implant-that-delivers-pleasure-directly-into-your-brain"},"modified":"2021-11-18T00:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T08:24:16","slug":"what-are-the-ethics-of-an-implant-that-delivers-pleasure-directly-into-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/what-are-the-ethics-of-an-implant-that-delivers-pleasure-directly-into-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Ethics of an Implant That Delivers Pleasure Directly Into Your Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-are-the-ethics-of-an-implant-that-delivers-pleasure-directly-into-your-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For example, scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/depressed-woman-brain-implant\" class=\"\">recently treated<\/a> a patient\u2019s severe depression with a neural implant that zaps her brain 300 times per day and, she says, has allowed her to spontaneously laugh and feel joy for the first time in years. Of course, the treatment requires an electrode implanted deep into the brain, which currently reserves it for the most extreme medical cases \u2014 but as brain interface tech inexorably becomes more advanced and widely available, there\u2019s no reason such a device couldn\u2019t become a consumer gadget as well.<\/p>\n<p>At the research\u2019s current rate of trajectory, experts told Futurism, the tech could conceivably hit the market in just a few years. But what we don\u2019t know is what it will mean for us, psychologically as individuals and sociologically as a society, when we can experience genuine pleasure from the push of a button. And all those questions become even more complex, of course, when applied to the messy world of sex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA big question that remains unanswered is whether sextech will ultimately become a complement to our sex lives or a substitute,\u201d Kinsey Institute research fellow Justin Lehmiller, an expert on sex and psychology, told Futurism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For example, scientists recently treated a patient\u2019s severe depression with a neural implant that zaps her brain 300 times per day and, she says, has allowed her to spontaneously laugh and feel joy for the first time in years. Of course, the treatment requires an electrode implanted deep into the brain, which currently reserves it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}