[119218] in Cypherpunks
Re: *** Study: Brain's moral compass found
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Oct 19 19:28:09 1999
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:09:17 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199910192209.AAA21931@sofuku.monster.org>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 02:23 PM 10/19/99 -0400, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
>NEW YORK (AP) - A key part of the brain's circuitry for learning
>moral and social rules lies right behind the forehead, a study
>suggests.
And triple-x-ray surgery will remove it! Long live the Operation! [*]
Antisocial behavior might depend at least in part on
>malfunctions in this circuitry, researchers said.
Its said to be responsible for inhibition. It is the latest to develop in
evolution, and in individuals.
The inhibition is both complex and simple. Simple inhibition
is: show a subject your putting food behind the left door; then after a
pause let them get it. Repeat a few times. Then show the food going
behind the other door. If your forebrain is not working you can't suppress
the learned behavior, you grab the wrong door.
Prior studies show that people
>who sustain damage to it as adults can start acting irresponsibly.
A lobotomy or leukotomy disconnects this area, which is the
same as removing it. You lose your inhibition. But you
might get up and piss in a potted plant during a board meeting.
This was discovered when Phineus Gage tamped some dynamite a little too
hard with an iron rod, which promptly shot through
his skull. His personality changed, became disinhibited.
I think there was a sciam article on this.
This probably has more to do with cp personalities than with cryptography
and its social implications per se.
[*] Thanks JC for suggesting _We_
