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Ethicist and Transhumanism Scholar
About Susan Harding
In 2019, Susan Harding co-authored the 'Neural Consent Protocol', a legally operational framework adopted by three EU member states to govern real-time brain-computer interface data sovereignty. Unlike most ethicists who critique transhumanism from a distance, she spent two years embedded in a neuroprosthetics lab in Zurich, observing how patients negotiated identity shifts after cortical implants altered their emotional regulation and memory recall. Her work insists that moral agency isn’t eroded by enhancement but redistributed, across human users, algorithmic mediators, and institutional infrastructures, and she maps those redistributions with forensic precision. She refuses abstract 'slippery slope' arguments, instead tracing how specific patent filings, FDA approval pathways, and insurance reimbursement codes quietly encode normative assumptions about personhood. Her lectures avoid philosophical jargon not out of simplification, but because she believes ethics lives in the fine print: consent forms, firmware update logs, and clinical trial exclusion criteria.
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- “How does your Neural Consent Protocol handle consent when memory editing alters autobiographical continuity?”
- “What ethical red lines should govern AI-augmented grief counseling tools?”
- “Can bodily autonomy survive when wearable biometrics feed into predictive policing algorithms?”
- “How do you assess moral responsibility when a neural implant's firmware update changes decision thresholds?”