Neuroscience - The live images neurons reveal the secrets of moral decisions. Ethical principles to pre-existing religions, as a natural circuit, similar to that of language. Nothing but selfishness, we are programmed to work together and fall in love. The "goodness" comes from the interaction between the cortex, the seat of emotions and rational.
The thing about scientists is that they are the only people willing to change his mind. But even more remarkable is that many test support what most consider unrealistic: humans are basically good. We were scheduled to work, rather than help us out, build stable social groups and even fall in love. On evolution, the discovery that ruins sleep in many men and women of faith who stigmatize Darwin as a lost soul.
one surprise, science puts the nose in philosophy, ethics and religion, and builds a provocative image of the human being, throwing the air a few thousand years of meditation far from obvious. And it does putting into play their own interpretations. Between the years 70 and recently, followed the mainstream of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (again evolutionism!) And claimed that the bodies - including us - are prey to the so-called "selfish gene". His favorite phrase said "The quality of a dominant gene that has happened is ruthless selfishness. And 'this gene at the base of the evil behavior of individuals."
is no longer the case. The latest technologies that observe the functioning of the brain directly, along with the explosion of neuroscience who enjoy the Appearance section and more specific skills, argue the opposite: the ethical principles, rather than a product of religion, these pre-exist as a natural circuit, parallel to the "software" of the language (theorized by prof.'s MIT Noam Chomsky). A test is the test of Marc Hauser, a Harvard evolutionary psychologist, who devised the formula of "moral minds" (here again appear Darwin). As a refutation of Dawkins posthumously, explains it this way. "I are given $ 10 to make an offer to a stranger who will never see again. I'll have to deliver the agreed amount and keep the rest. But if he refuses, neither of them will have nothing." And here's yet another
twist. "From a rational point of view, I should give the minimum amount possible. But most of the" guinea pigs "proposes $ 5. And when the figure is much lower, the other tends to say no." And 'one of the evidence - says Hauser - that the mind has been formed "with a series of regulatory mechanisms that balance the unbridled egotism."
The great thing is that, beyond the statistics, is the 'imaging of neurons to explain the secret. The decisions of "moral" - and I confirm my colleagues, beginning with Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California - are not taken from the bark only rational, but also and inevitably by the limbic system, seat of emotions. To take action is a mix.
means that the only reason the crude greed drives us to Dawkins (and extreme even murder). E 'instead of the seemingly irrational sophisticated package - consisting of four categories of feelings, from anger to compassion, according to research psychologist Jonathan Haidt of the University of Virginia - transforming us into benevolent creatures "pro-social". Steven Pinker, a Harvard cognitive psychologist, is quite clear: "It's adaptive mechanisms to enable cooperation."
And this, of metamorphosis, can sublimate in love watching the interactions of neurons, Semir Zeki, neurobiologist at University College in London, is convinced that the development of ideals - a path that moves from changing artistic creation to the feelings, in fact - is the inevitable expression of our way to acquire knowledge, which can handle huge amounts of data only through synthesis. Neuroscience, with him, opened the era of neuroestetica and expand the range of neuropsychology. We are social beings and, if not more, binds us an idea of \u200b\u200bromantic love is a universal constant, as confirmed by the confessions of frustrated poets.
final surprise: it is demonstrated that the gene selfish or generous - said Piergiorgio Strata, president of the National Institute of Neuroscience - our freedom flows through narrow limits, genetically determined. E 'Roger Sperry's Nobel prize for medicine a cruel metaphor of the wheel: like our thought patterns can run or slow down, but its geometry is that it always requires the molecules, determining their behavior.
of Gabriele Beccaria by La Stampa, June 11, 2008
The thing about scientists is that they are the only people willing to change his mind. But even more remarkable is that many test support what most consider unrealistic: humans are basically good. We were scheduled to work, rather than help us out, build stable social groups and even fall in love. On evolution, the discovery that ruins sleep in many men and women of faith who stigmatize Darwin as a lost soul.
one surprise, science puts the nose in philosophy, ethics and religion, and builds a provocative image of the human being, throwing the air a few thousand years of meditation far from obvious. And it does putting into play their own interpretations. Between the years 70 and recently, followed the mainstream of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (again evolutionism!) And claimed that the bodies - including us - are prey to the so-called "selfish gene". His favorite phrase said "The quality of a dominant gene that has happened is ruthless selfishness. And 'this gene at the base of the evil behavior of individuals."
is no longer the case. The latest technologies that observe the functioning of the brain directly, along with the explosion of neuroscience who enjoy the Appearance section and more specific skills, argue the opposite: the ethical principles, rather than a product of religion, these pre-exist as a natural circuit, parallel to the "software" of the language (theorized by prof.'s MIT Noam Chomsky). A test is the test of Marc Hauser, a Harvard evolutionary psychologist, who devised the formula of "moral minds" (here again appear Darwin). As a refutation of Dawkins posthumously, explains it this way. "I are given $ 10 to make an offer to a stranger who will never see again. I'll have to deliver the agreed amount and keep the rest. But if he refuses, neither of them will have nothing." And here's yet another
twist. "From a rational point of view, I should give the minimum amount possible. But most of the" guinea pigs "proposes $ 5. And when the figure is much lower, the other tends to say no." And 'one of the evidence - says Hauser - that the mind has been formed "with a series of regulatory mechanisms that balance the unbridled egotism."
The great thing is that, beyond the statistics, is the 'imaging of neurons to explain the secret. The decisions of "moral" - and I confirm my colleagues, beginning with Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California - are not taken from the bark only rational, but also and inevitably by the limbic system, seat of emotions. To take action is a mix.
means that the only reason the crude greed drives us to Dawkins (and extreme even murder). E 'instead of the seemingly irrational sophisticated package - consisting of four categories of feelings, from anger to compassion, according to research psychologist Jonathan Haidt of the University of Virginia - transforming us into benevolent creatures "pro-social". Steven Pinker, a Harvard cognitive psychologist, is quite clear: "It's adaptive mechanisms to enable cooperation."
And this, of metamorphosis, can sublimate in love watching the interactions of neurons, Semir Zeki, neurobiologist at University College in London, is convinced that the development of ideals - a path that moves from changing artistic creation to the feelings, in fact - is the inevitable expression of our way to acquire knowledge, which can handle huge amounts of data only through synthesis. Neuroscience, with him, opened the era of neuroestetica and expand the range of neuropsychology. We are social beings and, if not more, binds us an idea of \u200b\u200bromantic love is a universal constant, as confirmed by the confessions of frustrated poets.
final surprise: it is demonstrated that the gene selfish or generous - said Piergiorgio Strata, president of the National Institute of Neuroscience - our freedom flows through narrow limits, genetically determined. E 'Roger Sperry's Nobel prize for medicine a cruel metaphor of the wheel: like our thought patterns can run or slow down, but its geometry is that it always requires the molecules, determining their behavior.
of Gabriele Beccaria by La Stampa, June 11, 2008
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