Predictive Brain Implants: Advance Directives with a Mechanical Twist

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Notes

1.  Radden agrees with these authors that the freedom to bind oneself is a central expression of autonomy, though she thinks changing one's mind is one, too.

2.  Ronald Dworkin argues for this in Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom (New York, NY: Knopf, 1993), 227. As long as a person is still competent, her present autonomy overrides her precedent autonomy.

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