Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English. The ethical issues raised by brain–computer interface technology may not be new, but they may be unprecedented in severity. Current research on bioethics focuses more on ethical issues related to technology, falling into the category of technology ethics rather than bioethics. Technological problems are constantly changing and endless, and each technology has its own value and characteristics, but ethical issues have been more or less the same since ancient times. This raises the question of whether technology is being renewed or whether ethics are not moving with the times. If the issues are just “old wine in new bottles,” then what is the significance and value of bioethics?