Joshua Greene believes he has found the answer. Answer with different areas of the brain concerned.
In his view, the case of a part of the so-called “independent of personal feelings,” the moral dilemma, which involves the brain, the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex (especially the front side of the cingulate cortex, the temporal pole and the superior temporal sulcus) in those the main objective and calm experience related to the site, which is rational thinking and reasoning and related parts.
The case of two so-called moral dilemma belongs “and personal feelings related to” which the brain’s emotional center violent impact door – the amygdala, caused an uproar in this area.
When the vast majority of ordinary people with the same psychopath moral dilemmas encountered one case, are quite straightforward. However, the focus is to treat cases of two issues, psychopaths and ordinary people is completely different, they do not have the slightest hesitation, will be poised to put the fat man dropped the bridge to go, even the eyes are blinking.
To make matters more complicated, the behavioral differences in the brain is also quite clearly reflected. Nothing to do with personal feelings when faced with ethical dilemmas, the psychopath with normal neuronal activation patterns are basically consistent, however, when it comes the dilemma of personal feelings, the two very different reactions to the.
Imagine, I push you into a magnetic resonance imaging device, and then ask you these two moral dilemmas. When you struggle between emotion and intellect, I will observe from the brain imaging to map it? From the moment when the problem has nothing to do with personal feelings related to steering and personal feelings, I’ll see you in the amygdala and related brain circuits light up, like those flashing lights like gambling machines. In other words, I can see emotions play a role.
However, for a psychopath, I see only darkness. Neurons casino seemed empty door closed, has been abandoned. When the nature of the moral dilemma has nothing to do with personal feelings and personal feelings about the shift from, psychopath completely unmoved, hearts will not set off a trace of waves.
“Mixer” theory
What conditions are required in order to achieve success in a given industry: due diligence, hard work? This seems to be the key factor was not successful. In the legal profession, business, and you want to struggle any one area, in addition to the completion of the work must have a variety of professional skills, but in order to accomplish something in their careers, you should also have some special qualities of personality.
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