Scientists discover moral compass in the brain

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Re: Scientists discover moral compass in the brain

Post by JimC » Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:47 am

born-again-atheist wrote:Ain't a lot of our behaviour in our genes? And ain't our brain, on account of it being 'abstract' (What is, what it ought to be, and what we want are all possibilities), our "tool" for fighting against them/ignoring them? Or is our brain as much a tool of our genes as the rest of our body?
I like to think of the brain as a large, never-finished construction site, jointly engineered by genes and experience...
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Re: Scientists discover moral compass in the brain

Post by Trolldor » Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:54 am

Unfinished, yet operational?

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Re: Scientists discover moral compass in the brain

Post by JimC » Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:59 am

born-again-atheist wrote:Unfinished, yet operational?

It's a trap!
As Woody Allen once said: "My brain is my second-favourite organ"
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