Datafied Brains and Digital Twins: Lessons From Industry, Caution For Psychiatry

This paper asks what sorts of ethical caution ought to attach increasingly data-driven approaches understanding the brain. is taken be an important question especially owing a likely near future neuromonitoring and neuromodulation devices with applications in psychiatry. The explores this by i) sketching concept ‘digital twin,’ ii) drawing schematic picture ‘brain datafication’ general, iii) developing means some challenges present datafication through lens digital twins. One central concern arises from role algorithmic processing neural recordings plays terms neuroscientific objectivity, knock on effects for psychiatric ethics. Essentially, way which brain data construction appears deductive character, but fact based particular scheme inductive inference. explored urge as they epistemological gaps data-centered progress, well knock-on