We had the great pleasure last night of attending the birthday party for one of our neighbours. The whole evening was a lot of fun, but particularly because of my dinner conversation partner, a man named Peter Burow. Peter is director of a business called “NeuroPower” and the author of a book with the same [...]
View PostFascinating little snippet from Wired Science. The fundamental origin of our dearest beliefs is a centuries-old philosophical question: Do they reflect, as Kant claimed, deep and pure principles? Or, per Jeremy Bentham, are they elegantly rationalized cost-benefit analyses? Neuroscientist Greg Berns of Emory University put this question to the test in a brain scanner. [...]
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