The Neuroscience of Moral Decision-Making
Speaking in November 2006 at the Harvard Science Center on “The Neuroscience of Moral Decision-Making,” neurophilosopher Joshua Greene suggested that there’s no soul or immaterial mental agent that makes up your mind when you solve moral dilemmas (an mp3 of the talk is linked here). Instead, it’s a matter of how different sub-systems in your brain “duke it out,” one system keyed to immediate personal and emotional factors, the other to more abstract, quantitative and impersonal factors.