"Playing God": How the metaverse will challenge our very notion of free will

The United Nations Human Rights Council recently adopted a draft resolution entitled Neurotechnology and Human Rights. It's aimed at protecting humanity from devices that can "record, interfere with, or modify brain activity." To describe the risks, the resolution uses euphemistic phrases like cognitive engineering, mental privacy, and cognitive liberty, but what we're really talking about is mind control. I applaud the UN for taking up the issue of mind control, but neurotechnology is not our greatest threat on this front. That's because it involves sophisticated hardware ranging from "brain implants" to wearable devices that can detect and transmit signals through the skull.