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<blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 2162290" data-attributes="member: 30001"><p>I sort of read it. </p><p> </p><p>I got about this far: "How We Think</p><p>Brain Researchers Are Using MRIs to Predict Our Decisions Before They Are Made. The Results Are Intriguing, and a Little Disturbing"</p><p> </p><p>Before I decided (with my monkey brain) that what I was reading was journalism, and not science (as it is defined by the community that self-applies this label). "A scientific journal article", I told myself, "would have proposed a carefully worded hypothesis and then shown results that only had a bearing on that hypothesis." And so I am extremely skeptical about the results as interpreted by a couple of journalists and filtered through some casual comments. At least I'd like to know what machines they are using to measure the level of "disturbingness" of results. I didn't see anything about morality in the article. I did see a quote about what an economist thinks about a scientific paper he read.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>I guess I don't know what you're talking about here. My comment stands whether or not you equate these two. Take either, or both, and define what is "superior" by either criteria. What I'm saying is that you can't define, universally, what is "intellectually superior" or "morally superior" without talking about what you expect as a result of either intellectual or morally based decisions. Even something as simple as an IQ Test is burdened, I think legitimately, with questions as to whether or not the thing it seeks to measure even makes sense as a universal. Even if you know what YOUR particular criteria is, casual use of these terms will confuse other people who do not hold your definition. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>They would only know which region (IF ANY) of my brain was active at the time I made this decision. I would not expect anyone with scientific training to interpret the results using IMO vague terms like "morality" and "reason". I'd leave that to journalists (whose job, admittedly, it make things interesting).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gizmo33, post: 2162290, member: 30001"] I sort of read it. I got about this far: "How We Think Brain Researchers Are Using MRIs to Predict Our Decisions Before They Are Made. The Results Are Intriguing, and a Little Disturbing" Before I decided (with my monkey brain) that what I was reading was journalism, and not science (as it is defined by the community that self-applies this label). "A scientific journal article", I told myself, "would have proposed a carefully worded hypothesis and then shown results that only had a bearing on that hypothesis." And so I am extremely skeptical about the results as interpreted by a couple of journalists and filtered through some casual comments. At least I'd like to know what machines they are using to measure the level of "disturbingness" of results. I didn't see anything about morality in the article. I did see a quote about what an economist thinks about a scientific paper he read. I guess I don't know what you're talking about here. My comment stands whether or not you equate these two. Take either, or both, and define what is "superior" by either criteria. What I'm saying is that you can't define, universally, what is "intellectually superior" or "morally superior" without talking about what you expect as a result of either intellectual or morally based decisions. Even something as simple as an IQ Test is burdened, I think legitimately, with questions as to whether or not the thing it seeks to measure even makes sense as a universal. Even if you know what YOUR particular criteria is, casual use of these terms will confuse other people who do not hold your definition. They would only know which region (IF ANY) of my brain was active at the time I made this decision. I would not expect anyone with scientific training to interpret the results using IMO vague terms like "morality" and "reason". I'd leave that to journalists (whose job, admittedly, it make things interesting). [/QUOTE]
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