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By Jonah Queen "The world of tomorrow" was the motto of the 1939 New York World's Fair Image courtesy of Flickr user Joe Haupt “One day, when you are old enough, you will be impregnated with a perfect clone of yourself. You will later upload all of your memories into this healthy new body. One day, long after that, you will repeat this process all over again. Through this cloning process, Emily, you will hope to live forever.” These are some of the first lines of dialogue spoken in the 2015 animated short film, World of Tomorrow .* These lines provide an introduction to the technology and society that this science fiction film imagines might exist in our future. In response to a  sequel , which was released last month, I am dedicating a post on this blog to discussing the film through a neuroethical lens. Plot Summary ( Note: the following contains spoilers for World of Tomorrow) Those lines are spoken to a young girl named Emily by one of her clones (a “third generatio...

by Lindsey Grubbs An intellectually diverse and opinionated crowd gathered recently for the most recent Neuroethics and Neuroscience in the News journal club at Emory University—“Your brain on movies: Implications for national security.” The discussion was one of the liveliest I've seen in the years I've been attending these events, which is perhaps not surprising: the talk touched on high-profile issues like neuromarketing (which is controversial enough that it has been banned in France since 2011) and military funding for neuroscience. The seminar was led by Dr. Eric Schumacher , Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia Tech, director of the Georgia State University/Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging , and principle investigator of CoNTRoL —Cognitive Neuroscience at Tech Research Laboratory. Currently, the lab investigates task-oriented cognition, as well as the relationship between film narratives and “transportation” (colloquially, the sense of “getting l...