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Brain thoughts:
Perhaps most perplexing is the question of legal responsibility. If someone wearing a neural prosthesis were to punch someone, who is to blame? The action may have been deliberate, in which case the patient is to blame, or the chip may have been malfunctioning and the responsibility would lie with the manufacturer. Discovering where the truth lay would be no easy task. The law has had trouble catching up with the self-parking car, never mind an electronically controlled limb gone wild.
From the article Bionic brain chips could overcome paralysis, via newscientist. com.
I foresee “my neural chip misfired” becoming a popular excuse for decking someone.
How about Alien Hand Syndrome?
Would this be like being responsible but not at fault (Like if your kid breaks a window)?
If this does become an issue, perhaps recording the chips processes would be a solution. Although, the privacy issues raised by that might be an even bigger concern.