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David Eagleman on Morality and the Brain

Philosophy Bites

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The Importance of Free Will in Human Behavior

Most of the changes in the brain are fundamentally inaccessible to us. Your genes, which you don't choose, and your environment, including your childhood experiences, we don't choose that. The legal system should be saying, what can we do from here? There's a lot more power in the numbers, in the statistics, than anyone would have guessed.

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