At about 30 minutes into the most recent episode with Pat Churchland, the discussion touched on how the neurochemistry of people who are well socialized differs from those who aren't. More specifically, there was a point made about how people who are well socialized and have the Humean (as we will soon discover, actually Smithian) moral sentiment have different brains than Continue Reading …
David Eagleman on the Neuroscience and the Unconscious
Terry Gross has an interesting interview with neuroscientist David Eagleman, author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Incidentally, if you're in Boston you can catch him at Harvard Bookstore on Friday). Eagleman's book is about, among many other things, the neuroscience of unconscious processes and their importance to our behavior (something of the particular Continue Reading …