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Boundless Science?

My Bionic Quest for Bolero is a story that sheds perspective on the boundlessness of

scientific quests. Sometime in the seventeenth century, the artificial and natural circumstances of

scientific quests were abandoned by systemic experimentation. This method slowly started

getting acceptance throughout the world. The approach of abandoning assumptions and making

observations with a clear, free from bias and open mind is inductive is a concept that gave birth

to other approaches of deduction like Aristotelian. Changing observations regarding the role of

science concerning nature, the value of the evidence, observed or exploratory, drove towards a

sensible strategy in which experimentation played a tremendous, however not outright, job

(Spilhaus p.5). Neuroengineering is an important medical field. Science revolutionized studying

of the brain from the use of animals and postmortem to using brain imaging techniques.

Techniques like PET, CAT, and fMRI are imperative for clinical brain study set for clinical

settings. There was also the advent of invasive and slightly invasive devices, which give

neurofeedback. They record and display brain activities in real-time and help individuals learn to

regulate their brain activities. Other devices were invented for transcranial magnetic

stimulations. The mentioned devices influence neurons and their electrical activity, alter motor

function and cognition. Michael Chorost used such a device. He was born with partial hearing.

However, sometimes when he was a teenager, he discovered that he could somewhat hear

Bolero.
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As a consequence, he developed an attachment of sorts to the song. Listening the song

became a norm until when he lost what was left of his hearing. He got a cochlear implant that

was meant to trigger his auditory nerves with sixteen electrodes. Now, his brain could interpret a

few sounds. After training his mind and practicing for months, he could use the phone again. and

hold conversations in noisy places. The problem arose when he listened to music (Sattar, p.290).

When listening to Bolero, the only instrument he could hear was the drums. The cochlea was a

computer of sorts, so he sought to get a newer version, which he got a year later. He was

determined to use ninety percent of the device's hardware and set out to numerous crusades. He

later learned of a Hi-Res, which aided him to identify music notes that were seventy Hertz apart.

Today those that are thirty Hertz apart can are audible to him.

Limitations

The boundlessness is not always advantageous, as in the case presented by Victor

Frankenstein, who is described as an individual who lacks foresight. He had this quest to build or

rather reanimate a human being but did not consider the detrimental effects of doing so and the

consequences following his quest. He did not build contingencies for when an unexpected action

happens. In real life, several scientists do suffer from the same lack of foresight. Day in, day out,

we are reminded of the magnitude of power that scientists in genetic engineering, and nuclear

energy, to mention a few wield. All factors considered, the quest for attaining scientific

knowledge should be boundless. The above does not translate to engaging in unethical practices,

rather the quest should have no bounds, but the foresight of their undertakings should bind

scientists. If the scientific quest were to be deemed bounded, then injunctions would emerge

regarding ingenuity, thus suppressing the thinking capacity of the people to invent and innovate.

At the very beginning of a process or idea, groups of scientists are expected to review the
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questions involved before proceeding to apply new methods. The ill effects concerning the idea

should be foreseen and the risk minimized as early as possible before they get contained later.
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Ethics

If the world had no boundaries or limits, the results would be chaotic and catastrophic.

People would not know how to control themselves. To maintain order, human beings live and

work by a certain code of rules and guidelines. Every other day, human beings are pushing

themselves beyond the limit that controls the level of their actions. Scientists also are driven to

be innovative and make new inventions annually. The previous decade has seen the headway of

new interdisciplinary research areas nanotechnology, bioinformatics, computational science,

synthetic biology, tissue and neuro-engineering, biomaterials, and structural science models.

These new fields share an equivalent investigation model, convergence, and there is a need to

view them as the fortitude to ensure their continued progress. If their ambition gets misplaced

and they try to go past the existing limits, the results would generally be not pleasing. To avoid

this, the government has set up a certain ethics code (Tandon, p.123). Codes of ethics in matters

related to science and professionalism fulfill different necessities. At the professional plane,

codes report the standards according to which the profession can be considered liable for the

conduct of the people in it.

Further, the government and society entrust control of the professional standards to

professional bodies for self-regulation. The presence of a code gives the premise of a profession's

morals program of movement intended to impart moral principles among its members'

participation. Corrections to the code can be considered through individual enrollment input at

authoritative gatherings, workshops, and meetings. This constant discussion of issues and

concerns builds up a review connection, ensuring that any code stays sensitive to changing social

characteristics (London, p.525). Most professionals depend on public support; hence, they need

to live by the code and remain relevant and accountable.

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Work Cited
London, Alex John. "Equipoise in research: integrating ethics and science in human

research." Jama 317.5 (2017): 525-526. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-

abstract/2600451

Sattar, Atia. "To Have an Ear: Music and the Otological Experience." Journal of Medical

Humanities 37.3 (2016): 289-298. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-014-

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Spilhaus, F. "Boundless Science." EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2009.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009EGUGA..1114119S/abstract

Tandon, Vishal R., et al. "Unethical publication practices." JK Science 8.3 (2006): 123-124.

http://jkscience.org/archive/Volume83/unethic.pdf