NEUROBIONICS - A NOVEL FACULTY BETWEEN ETHICS, NEUROBIOLOGY, COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES

ABSTRACT Neurosurgery as a medical discipline, responsible for maintaining the health of the biological carrier (=brain) of the human mind, thus hovers between ethics as a philosophical discipline, basic natural science disciplines, such as computational neuroscience, and the clinical application of this knowledge in the case of the patient suffering from illness. Therefore, in respect of the well-being of our brain-mind entity, the faculty “Neurobionics” is to be formed which has set itself the following principal aims: 1. development of tools placed at neurosurgery's disposal to substitute failed parts of the human brain by artificial carriers of information-processing 2. international and interdisciplinary cooperation to achieve aim 1 3. the integration of humanities, such as philosophy, in the field of natural sciences and a prior ethical evaluation of prospective projects 4. the orientation of all parts of the faculty towards the medical aim of helping patients with diseases of the central nervous system “Neurobionics” has to constitute itself from different disciplines. Among them are ethics, epistemology, fractal geometry, molecular biology, molecular electronic devices, computational neuroscience, neuroinformatics, hardware engineering, software engineering, robotics, behavioural science and neurosurgery. The logical connection of the various branches and their collaboration in respect of the project's aims is conceptualized in the following introduction to “Neurobionics”.