Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Magnets & morality

Reports in the press suggest that researchers at MIT have been able to apply a magnetic field to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgments. Frustratingly, I have not been able to locate the scientific paper on which these reports are based, though I have found other contributions from one of the researchers on the topic of the theory of mind & moral judgement.

The notion that morals might be changed by magnetic fields however makes me wonder if perhaps I should really be alarmed by my experience with the compass & the bus & modern automobiles.

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