Is moral responsibility an illusion? | Galen Strawson, Massimo Pigliucci, Sarah Garfinkel
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is There a Simple Mapping Between Genetics and Behavior?
If it was a simple mapping of genetics to behavior, we would have cured many diseases. So there is this dynamic relationship between sort of limbic circuitry and emotional led architecture in the brain. There are inhibitory regions from the prefrontal cortex which help control those impulses and those inhibitions. People may differ in those fundamental drives. Burs of anger may be higher in some people, but there is also these regulatory areas which people can exercise control. And in the vast majority of cases, then that's why people need to be accountable for their actions. But I did not mean to imply that there is any simple mapping between genetics and behaviors that absolutely isn't.
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