Everyday neuromorality.
Increasingly, scientists are observing and recording human emotions through neuroimaging. Such capability is causing widespread uneasiness, writes Adina Roskies, for it has the potential to result in a sort of demystification of the mental that makes freedom of the will seem impossible and threatens to leave us open to manipulation as never before. Relax, the author argues: Moral responsibility is fundamentally social, and self-control is what makes us free. Understanding cognitive function may cause us to revise, but will not force us to abandon, common notions of moral responsibility and control.
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D001519:Behavior; D032763:Behavior Control / Q000941:ethics; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D003068:Coercion; D003071:Cognition; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000941:ethics*; D004644:Emotions; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000941:ethics*; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D018907:Privacy; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014836:Volition