March 31, 2007
Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
In other words, people with a rare injury - damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex - expressed increased willingness to kill or harm another person if doing so would save others’ lives.
The findings are the most direct evidence that humans’ native revulsion to hurting others relies on a part of neural anatomy, one that evolved before the higher brain regions responsible for analysis and planning.
entry/etc. http://dericbownds.net/2007/03/damage-to-prefrontal-cortex-increases.html | MindBlog
>another blog entry BPS Digest (March 30)
~Building the perfect soldier.
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Posted by Stubbornson at March 31, 2007 04:01 PM