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Losing Meaning: Philosophical Reflections on Neural Interventions and their Influence on Narrative Identity

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2021
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Leuenberger, M. (2021). Losing Meaning: Philosophical Reflections on Neural Interventions and their Influence on Narrative Identity. Neuroethics, 14(3), 491–505. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-021-09469-5

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The profound changes in personality, mood, and other features of the self that neural interventions can induce can be disconcerting to patients, their families, and caregivers. In the neuroethical debate, these concerns are often addressed in the context of possible threats to the narrative self. In this paper, I argue that it is necessary to consider a dimension of impacts on the narrative self which has so far been neglected: neural interventions can lead to a loss of meaning of actions, feelings, beliefs, and other intentional elem

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  • Leuenberger, Muriel
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14

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3

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491

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505

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Psychiatry and Mental health, Health Policy, Neurology, Philosophy

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English

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2021-05-15

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2023-09-26

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1874-5504

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PMCID: PMC8643292

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Forschungsfonds der Universität Basel
Universität Basel

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Leuenberger, M. (2021). Losing Meaning: Philosophical Reflections on Neural Interventions and their Influence on Narrative Identity. Neuroethics, 14(3), 491–505. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-021-09469-5

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