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Title: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: sinij on May 11, 2007, 07:56:53 AM From The Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2007
Quote A provocative medical experiment conducted recently by neuroscientists at Harvard, Caltech and the University of Southern California strongly suggests these [moral] impulsive convictions come not from conscious principles but from the brain trying to make its emotional judgment felt. Using neurology patients to probe moral reasoning, the researchers for the first time drew a direct link between the nuroanatomy of emotion and moral judgment. The experiment underscores the pivotal part played by unconscious empathy and emotion in guiding decisions. "When that influence is missing," said USC neuroscientists Antonio Damasio, "pure reason is set free". Cliff notes: Morals = Emotions != Reason Get full article to read if you get a chance. Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: Furiously on May 11, 2007, 08:23:16 AM The experiment underscores the pivotal part played by unconscious empathy and emotion in guiding decisions. "When that influence is missing," said USC neuroscientists Antonio Damasio, "pure reason is set free". look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you r-run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?” (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/SHODAN_hires.jpg) Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: Merusk on May 11, 2007, 08:53:31 AM Deja-Vu.
Fuck, you didn't even bother to give this one a new name. Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: sinij on May 11, 2007, 09:14:55 AM You can argue philosophy, religion or spirituality but you can only discredit scientific findings since they are not subjective.
Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: Damn Dirty Ape on May 11, 2007, 10:31:43 AM But we're spirits in the material world. Sting said so.
Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: Merusk on May 11, 2007, 10:35:27 AM 4:20 came early today, didn't it DDA.
Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: Damn Dirty Ape on May 11, 2007, 10:41:37 AM Alas, but no. :cry:
Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: Roac on May 11, 2007, 07:23:16 PM More on it (http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/13596.html).
Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: Paelos on May 11, 2007, 07:29:15 PM So when do we finally get to start gassing the immoral toddlers? That's where we're going with this right?
Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: bhodi on May 11, 2007, 11:31:11 PM That scenario is retarded.
Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: Ironwood on May 12, 2007, 02:17:51 AM :roll:
Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: Tebonas on May 12, 2007, 03:07:45 AM And? I fail to see the relation between amorality and a life of crime.
Morals are just one reason to be a wellbehaved part of society, and by far the most unreliable anyway. Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: Murgos on May 12, 2007, 05:25:22 AM It's not even that straight forward. The brains connections change over time and with experience. That study says nothing about when or how those moral connections were made.
Title: Re: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring Post by: sinij on May 12, 2007, 06:39:59 AM "You making me feel bad about myself, you are bad person. "
That what morals boil down to. Emotions, positive self image, reactive emotional reasoning. |