http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488
The world's first brain prosthesis - an artificial hippocampus - is about to be tested in California.
<i>Any device that mimics the brain clearly raises ethical issues. The brain not only affects memory, but your mood, awareness and consciousness - parts of your fundamental identity.</i> Says ethicist Joel Anderson at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri.
And you thought cloning was bad...