ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the intriguing issue of infant consciousness, outlining the impressive progresses as well as the big challenges in exploring the inner world of infants and in implementing a sort of communication with them. It aims to clarify the ethical and social issues emerging from the prospective cerebral communication. The book shows that the increasing knowledge about the dynamic nature of the brain can be a starting point for an adequate management of the brain, for predicting diseases and implement preventive interventions at early stages and for developing new neurotechnology. The complexity of consciousness as revealed by neuroscience, which at the same time revealed the impossibility to reduce conscious mind to cognition and the important role played by emotion, raises the need to develop new, alternative tools for communicating with speechless subjects.
