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Agential self-trust serves as the unifying principle for the four dimensions of agency (responsibility, privacy, authenticity, and trust) threatened by neurotechnologies, necessitating integrative assessment measures and updated informed consent procedures. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To identify the unifying structural principle underlying the multifaceted agency threats posed by neurotechnologies such as brain–computer interfaces and deep brain stimulation.

September 2, 2026AJOB Neuroscience

Self-Trust as a Unifying Principle for the Dimensions of Agency in Neurotechnology

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SMSamuel Murray

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Conceptual analysis demonstrates that agential self-trust structurally unifies threats to agency in neurotechnology users, indicating a need to reform informed consent and assessment tools.

Key Points

To identify the unifying structural principle underlying the multifaceted agency threats posed by neurotechnologies such as brain–computer interfaces and deep brain stimulation.
Conducted a conceptual analysis of the four-dimensional agency framework (responsibility, privacy, authenticity, and trust) and evaluation instruments such as the Qualitative Agentive Competency Tool (Q-ACT).
Evaluated the structural mechanisms linking agency erosion to philosophical models of planning agency.
Identified agential self-trust as the central mechanism unpinning agency loss, with each dimension tracking degraded confidence in action control, deliberative privacy, psychological continuity, or evaluative capacities.
Showed that existing informed consent protocols and assessment tools fragment agency risk evaluations, thereby overlooking the cumulative degradation of agential self-trust in device users.

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Samuel Murray (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e2b1c562ede874ec6e63 https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2026.2716034

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September 2, 2026AJOB Neuroscience

Self-Trust as a Unifying Principle for the Dimensions of Agency in Neurotechnology

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Authors

SMSamuel Murray

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Overview

Conceptual analysis demonstrates that agential self-trust structurally unifies threats to agency in neurotechnology users, indicating a need to reform informed consent and assessment tools.

Key Points

To identify the unifying structural principle underlying the multifaceted agency threats posed by neurotechnologies such as brain–computer interfaces and deep brain stimulation.
Conducted a conceptual analysis of the four-dimensional agency framework (responsibility, privacy, authenticity, and trust) and evaluation instruments such as the Qualitative Agentive Competency Tool (Q-ACT).
Evaluated the structural mechanisms linking agency erosion to philosophical models of planning agency.
Identified agential self-trust as the central mechanism unpinning agency loss, with each dimension tracking degraded confidence in action control, deliberative privacy, psychological continuity, or evaluative capacities.
Showed that existing informed consent protocols and assessment tools fragment agency risk evaluations, thereby overlooking the cumulative degradation of agential self-trust in device users.

Cite This Study

Samuel Murray (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e2b1c562ede874ec6e63 https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2026.2716034

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