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It's Brain Science: Ethics, Purpose, and Our Complex Minds | Picard & Khosbin

The Veritas Forum

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The Dualism of the Brain

"The brain has been divided into two parts. This dualism has been going on all the time," he says. "We do need a system, but it can come from a system that's designed to help others" The upper part of the brain is responsible evolutionally for preservation of self and then if you are threatened, it takes off - hence compassion.

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