Beyond consciousness: Ethical, legal, and social issues in human brain organoid research and application

Affiliations

• ¹ Uehiro Division for Applied Ethics, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
• ² Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan.
• ³ Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴ Graduate Institute of Health and Biotechnology Law, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ⁵ Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
• ⁶ Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia; Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁷ Uehiro Division for Applied Ethics, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan; Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan; Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Electronic address: [email protected].