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Federalist Radio Hour

Inside ‘The Battle For Your Brain’

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Nita Farahany, the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke Law School, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the concept of cognitive liberty and how it can combat the ethical and legal dilemmas presented by advances in neurotechnology.

You can find Farahany's book "The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology" here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250272966/thebattleforyourbrain

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:20.2

I'm Emily Gisinski, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.

0:22.6

As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com.

0:26.2

Follow us on Twitter at FDRLST.

0:28.6

Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.

0:32.2

I'm so excited to be joined today by Nita Farhani.

0:35.6

She's the author of the new book, Battle for Your Brain,

0:38.2

Defending the Right to Think.

0:39.9

She's also a professor of law and philosophy over at Duke.

0:43.2

Thank you, Nita, for joining the show.

0:45.5

Thank you for having me.

0:46.7

Of course, there's so much to dig into with this book

0:50.0

with your career in general.

0:51.5

I have been studying biopsyx for a really long time,

0:54.2

so I want to just start there.

0:56.4

What got you interested in studying biopsyx,

0:59.2

especially at a time when what you're writing about now,

1:02.7

it feels really new.

1:03.6

It feels like a lot of this is starting,

1:05.8

but I'm sure you saw the writing on the wall

1:08.2

long before this present moment.

1:10.6

Yeah, great question.

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