Re: The Meaning of Life

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:22:19 -0800

Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> This study recent published in Nature suggests not only a neural basis
> for morality, but a specific neural basis for a specific kind of morality:

I'd say an irrational morality. I almost always make the utilitarian choice in those hypothetical moral dilemmas (must be damage from one of my motorcycle crashes :-)).

I wonder if they surveyed any Inuits, who traditionally killed female infants in a family until a son had been born.

Brent Meeker

>
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature05631.html
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/science/22brain.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/science/22brain.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin>
>
> Stathis Papaioannou

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Received on Sun Mar 25 2007 - 20:24:30 PDT