Adam Shriver

New Podcast: Detecting Awareness With Brain Imaging

As John mentioned a while back, I’m starting a new podcast, The Life Of The Mind/Brain, examining issues that arise at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and society. The podcast is aimed at a general audience, but hopefully the issues discussed will be of interest to the Brains gang. …

Knocking Out Pain in Livestock

Adam Shriver February 10, 2010 July 13, 2016 Uncategorized

Hi, thanks very much to Gualtiero for allowing me to post here. Last summer, I published an article in the journal Neuroethics discussing the possibility of genetically engineering livestock that lack the affective or “suffering” component of pain. New Scientist magazine picked up on the story and this generated a …