> 2) In a near future neuroscience will cure pedophilia and ,partially, psychopatic tendencies with artifical empathy generators in your skull.

This will be the first application of so-called "desire engineering": the elimination of desires that people do not desire to desire.

From there though the implications get... interesting. What happens when you can also add or tweak desires? What do you want to want? What do you want to want to want? Raises a lot of philosophical questions, some of which may be troubling.

They are troubling now. Is it a criminal accountable for its acts, or the determinism due to the unstoppable chemical connections making its braincommit the crime?

will they consent to this implant? doesn't seem likely. and if not are you really so sure about the ehics of forced medical procedures? seems wrong to me.

> will they consent to this implant? doesn't seem likely. and if not are you really so sure about the ehics of forced medical procedures? seems wrong to me.

If an "implant" could influence anyone mind to the degree the GP is speculating, it could probably also influence them to desire the implant and strongly reject the idea of its removal, which raises interesting questions.

That sounds dystopian