How can our brain chemistry affect moral decision making?
The neuroscientist Molly Crocket gives some intriguing answers to this in a talk:
(It’s a video, but you could also just listen to it. Or if you prefer to read, there’s a full transcript on the Edge website.)
She is addressing her talk to a live audience of academics, and therefore assumes a lot of knowledge from her listeners, but I hope you will not be turned off too much by some friendly jargon. Her overall insights are still very understandable by a general audience (I think), and certainly interesting.
I’m only recommending the first ~25min, the rest is a discussion with the audience (other scientists) that did not add too much to my enlightenment — you may feel differently.
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