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Topic: Scientists draw link between morality and brain's wiring (Read 2113 times)
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sinij
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From The Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2007 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. |
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Furiously
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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?”  |
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« Last Edit: May 11, 2007, 08:26:11 AM by Furiously »
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Merusk
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Deja-Vu.
Fuck, you didn't even bother to give this one a new name.
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sinij
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You can argue philosophy, religion or spirituality but you can only discredit scientific findings since they are not subjective.
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« Last Edit: May 11, 2007, 09:23:48 AM by sinij »
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Damn Dirty Ape
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But we're spirits in the material world. Sting said so.
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Merusk
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4:20 came early today, didn't it DDA.
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-Roac
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"Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us." -SC
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Paelos
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So when do we finally get to start gassing the immoral toddlers? That's where we're going with this right?
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bhodi
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No lie.
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That scenario is retarded.
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Ironwood
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Tebonas
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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.
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Murgos
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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.
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sinij
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"You making me feel bad about myself, you are bad person. "
That what morals boil down to. Emotions, positive self image, reactive emotional reasoning.
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