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Neuroscientist Dr David Eagleman considers some emerging questions relating to law and neuroscience, challenging long-held assumptions in criminality and punishment and predicting a radical new future for the legal system.

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@hue-man,

hue-man;67863 wrote:

Neuroscientist Dr David Eagleman considers some emerging questions relating to law and neuroscience, challenging long-held assumptions in criminality and punishment and predicting a radical new future for the legal system.

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This is excelent study, really giving a clear understanding of the human mind, I sorely wish that all philosophers should mandatorily watch this before even speaking of any neurosience relating topics, instead of concjouring up their own nonsens.

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@hue-man,

I don't understand the connection from brain tumors and shooting sprees to psychology is neurology. The whole philosophical assumption behind neurology=psychology is that the unconscious is dominant(or even all that is), i.e. a Freudian hypothesis.

So: Freud, therefore not Freud. Razz

(And of course common law is crap! But what does that have to do with brain surgery?)

And ethics makes a showing at the end? Probabilistic ethics at that?

You are your biology.
And here is your ethics.
Your welcome.

Yes, it is creepy.

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@jack phil,

This all comes very much accordingly with what I have been defending so far with a few more non aligned thinkers out there...
And of course it matters when concerning free will. That is exactly what was underlined in it in the first place, was it not ?
although it was clearly avoided any direct answer to that, and I can empathise why when I look to the forum reactions on this issue, it was suficiently sugested that such was the case.
...Anyway, thanks for bring it up Hue ! Smile

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@jack phil,

jack;160203 wrote:

I don't understand the connection from brain tumors and shooting sprees to psychology is neurology. The whole philosophical assumption behind neurology=psychology is that the unconscious is dominant(or even all that is), i.e. a Freudian hypothesis.

So: Freud, therefore not Freud.

(And of course common law is crap! But what does that have to do with brain surgery?)

And ethics makes a showing at the end? Probabilistic ethics at that?

You are your biology.
And here is your ethics.
Your welcome.

Yes, it is creepy.

A tumor will apply pressure to surrounding brain tissue and thereby alter the bloodflow, the chemical flow and neurologically flow.

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@HexHammer,

And I can link a story of a woman lifting a Volkswagon that just fell on her husband, with nothing but her own strength.

Of course, there isn't any money in that direction.

The point being, the 'philosophical' foundations or conclusions presented in the video do not follow from the case studies, which are the important thing.

The brain=you is no more true than mind=you. This is one of Wittgenstein's main lines of attack. The fundamental confusion in philosophy is that words point at something without ever going proxy for it.

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@jack phil,

BRAIN = eu

BALLS = us

euro.$ = .127-

:bigsmile:

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@hue-man,

hue-man;67863 wrote:

Neuroscientist Dr David Eagleman considers some emerging questions relating to law and neuroscience, challenging long-held assumptions in criminality and punishment and predicting a radical new future for the legal system.

YouTube - The Brain and The Law

Thank you for sharing this with us. I find it odd that it took almost a year for someone to respond to such great info.:detective:

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@reasoning logic,

This all plays into the idea that retributive ethics is nonsense. Criminals should be, if possible, rehabilitated and carefully monitored, not simply punished and left to rot.

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