像NeurotechEU这样的未来派大学及其提供的技术创新将塑造和服务于社会,但也需要社会的支持。对神经技术的积极态度将增加他们在社会中的影响力,也可能影响决策,包括筹资决策。然而,可接受率,尤其是侵入性神经技术,相当低,大多数人对他们更担心而不是热情。因此,问题是神经技术进步应该带来什么。为了罕见地接触公众,我们建议进行一项跨国调查,目的是更好地了解我们NeurotechEU国家的挑战。我们的目标是比较和对比我们各国对神经技术进步的看法,即,他们的需求,兴趣,访问,对神经技术的知识和信任,以及这些是否应该受到监管。为此,我们开发了一个新工具的第一个版本——理解社会挑战问卷(USCQ)——它评估了所有六个维度(需求,兴趣,access,知识,信任,和政策制定),并设计用于欧盟/AC国家的行政管理。除了跨国比较,我们还将研究我们国家对神经技术进步的看法与人口和人格变量的联系,例如,教育和社会经济地位,住宅区的大小,五大人格特质,宗教信仰,政治立场,还有更多.我们希望这项研究将更深入地了解我们各国面临的挑战以及它们之间的异同,也将有助于揭示预测对神经技术进步的积极和消极态度的变量。通过将这些知识整合到科学过程中,NeurotechEU也许能够开发人们真正关心的神经技术,是道德和规范的,并且实际上被用户理解。
Futuristic universities like The NeurotechEU and the technological innovations they provide will shape and serve society, but will also require support from society. Positive attitudes about neuro-technologies will increase their reach within society and may also impact policy-making, including funding decisions. However, the acceptability rates, especially of invasive neuro-technologies, are quite low and the majority of people are more worried than enthusiastic about them. The question therefore arises as to what neuro-technological advances should entail. In a rare effort to reach out to the public, we propose to conduct a trans-national survey with the goal to better understand the challenges of our NeurotechEU nations. We aim to compare and contrast our nations specifically with respect to their perspectives on neuro-technological advances, i.e., their needs for, interests in, access to, knowledge of and trust in neuro-technologies, and whether these should be regulated. To this end, we have developed the first version of a new tool-the Understanding Societal Challenges Questionnaire (USCQ)-which assesses all six of these dimensions (needs, interest, access, knowledge, trust, and policy-making) and is designed for administration across EU/AC countries. In addition to trans-national comparisons, we will also examine the links of our nations\' perspectives on neuro-technological advances to demographic and personality variables, for example, education and socio-economic status, size of the residential area, the Big Five personality traits, religiosity, political standings, and more. We expect that this research will provide a deeper understanding of the challenges that our nations are facing as well as the similarities and differences between them, and will also help uncover the variables that predict positive and negative attitudes toward neuro-technological advances. By integrating this knowledge into the scientific process, The NeurotechEU may be able to develop neuro-technologies that people really care about, are ethical and regulated, and actually understood by the user.