Human capabilities and consciousness: their empowerment and fragility in BCI contexts

There are human actions, like enduring, which do not necessarily involve bodily movements. BCI systems for motor substitution and control hold the promise to extend dramatically the repertoire of actions requiring no bodily movements at all. Ethical motivations for these extensions are framed in the context of medical beneficence, individual and relational autonomy, fundamental rights, and the capability approach in the theory of justice.