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Tim Minchin's brilliant & witty demolition of irrationality in all its many guises - with rolling text from me -all in the medium of a 9-minute beat poem.

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This list collects academic writings on the topic of neuroethics. For whose new to the field we recommend Martha Farah's two short papers as an introduction (Farah 2002 and 2005). (BRAINETHICS)

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Language, memory and intuition depend on rapid communication between both hemispheres of the brain. The corpus callosum is the conduit for that communication. Tony Grobmeier was born without one. Lynn Paul, a neuroscientist, tries to understand how Tony faces the world with a brain disconnected from itself. (YouTube)

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To Steven Quartz & Colin Camerer the brain is a huge number-cruncher, assigning a numeric value to everything from a loaf of bread to our most deeply held moral "values". In that sense, moral decisions are also economic ones. Using a brain scanner (fMRI), they want to catch the brain in the act—to see what it's doing at exactly the moment a tough moral decision gets made. Their research is pioneering a new branch of neuroscience -- neuroeconomics. (YouTube Video)

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In 2001, Philosophy became available in Year 11 and 12 for students in Victoria and in 2008 Western Australia followed suit with a course in Philosophy and Ethics. And as the news gets around about these senior secondary philosophy courses, there are bound to be calls for other states and territories to follow suit.

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Musing on the often acrimonious debate between atheists and believers, Simon Blackburn takes as his inspiration David Hume, who approached the issue not with hatred but with humour (Times Higher Education)

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Evolutionary thinking has lately expanded from the biological to the human world, first into the social sciences and recently into the humanities and the arts. Many people therefore now understand the human, and even human culture, as inextricably biological. But many others in the humanities-in this, at least, like religious believers who reject evolution outright-feel that a Darwinian view of life and a biological view of humanity can only deny human purpose and meaning. (Brian Boyd, The American Scholar)

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Some of the world's top scientists and ethicists met at Banff earlier in March, to ponder the most pressing issues in neuroscience. Their focus: Neuroethics

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We share Jens Clausen's opinion, expressed in his Commentary 'Man, machine and in between' (Nature 457, 1080–1081; 2009), that brain–machine interfaces promise many benefits and should be pursued. However, we do not agree that these technologies pose similar ethical challenges to those already addressed. Some consequences may be unprecedented.

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the study provides a solid blow to the idea that sex hormones affect our attitudes to trust or fairness, and it reminds us yet again to be cautious about relying too heavily on correlations. (Not Exactly Rocket Science)

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Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers embrace a different view of morality. In this view, moral thinking is more like aesthetics. As we look around the world, we are constantly evaluating what we see. Seeing and evaluating are not two separate processes. They are linked and basically simultaneous. (David Brooks)

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A look at some of the flawed thinking that prompts people who believe in certain non-scientific concepts to advise others who don't to be more open-minded.

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What is actually needed is an unbiased assessment of both the perils and promises of cloning humans. (Jacob M. Appel)

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SCIENTISTS have identified the seat of human wisdom by pinpointing parts of the brain that guide us when we face difficult moral dilemmas. (Times Online)

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We have become too reductive in understanding ourselves, argues philosopher Alva Noe. Our thoughts and desires are shaped by more than neurons firing inside our heads. (Salon)

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Ned Block

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Syllabus for Dr. Christopher H. Ramey’s class

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