MISSION

The mission of CINET is to promote dialogue, education and multidisciplinary research leading to a more accurate knowledge of how the human brain works. A systemic approach is taken to examine the global functioning of the brain, its connection with the rest of the body, with the life history of the individual, and with interpersonal relationships.

VISION

CINET aims to form a structure that complements the major international initiatives on the brain and, in dialogue with the humanities, raises non-reductionist interpretations of the brain-mind problem and the ethical issues arising from neuroscience. The goal, then, is to advance an anthropology that integrates the biological, subjective, and social components of the human being and that brings us closer to a fuller understanding of ourselves.

Objectives

CINET engages in the following activities to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between neuroscience and other disciplines:

To promote interdisciplinary training of researchers in the neurosciences and humanities, especially young people. But also for those established researchers who have recognised the need for dialogue to reframe the questions of their discipline.

To enrich the neuroethics committees of major international brain research projects, as well as research centres and hospitals, by leveraging the potential contribution of researchers with interdisciplinary training and a global vision of the human condition.

To enrich current neuroethics with non-neuroessentialist approaches to the mind-brain problem in order to arrive at a basic and applied neuroethics compatible with global visions of the human being.

To encourage neuroscience research proposals that emerge from interdisciplinary dialogue, and prioritise those that are risky but have the potential to make a real impact on the disciplines involved.

To empower society by engaging it in neuroscience and neuroethics that promote a global vision (biological, subjective, social) of the individual by illuminating the possibilities and limitations of cutting-edge neuroscience in understanding the human nervous system.