Comments on: Neuroscience of justice http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 26 May 2013 06:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html#comment-352513 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352513 judges will do as they please so long as it serves them. It's not complicated. judges will do as they please so long as it serves them. It’s not complicated.

]]> By: samu http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html#comment-352775 samu Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352775 The article pretends that an "emotional component" is surprising. If there wasn't one, how would we account for the success of the courtroom drama?! The article pretends that an “emotional component” is surprising. If there wasn’t one, how would we account for the success of the courtroom drama?!

]]> By: thequickbrownfox http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html#comment-352533 thequickbrownfox Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352533 This fMRI stuff is the worst junk science and I'm surprised BB would succumb to it. It's nothing more than phrenology, though now done with mega-expensive and impressive looking gadgetry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology This fMRI stuff is the worst junk science and I’m surprised BB would succumb to it.

It’s nothing more than phrenology, though now done with mega-expensive and impressive looking gadgetry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html#comment-352571 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352571 is the idea that brain scans will one day be used as lie detectors for plaintiffs and defendants and as impartiality enforcers on judges? I want to be a service tech then. is the idea that brain scans will one day be used as lie detectors for plaintiffs and defendants and as impartiality enforcers on judges? I want to be a service tech then.

]]> By: Antinous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html#comment-352581 Antinous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352581 <i>It's nothing more than phrenology, though now done with mega-expensive and impressive looking gadgetry.</i> Did you have some basis for making that extraordinary statement? Or do you also think that microwaves are just an artifact of mass hysteria? It’s nothing more than phrenology, though now done with mega-expensive and impressive looking gadgetry.

Did you have some basis for making that extraordinary statement? Or do you also think that microwaves are just an artifact of mass hysteria?

]]> By: klaradox http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html#comment-352584 klaradox Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352584 I didn't look up any references for the following information, but as I've read somewhere, our emotions are always part of our logical thinking. It is like the subconscious computer in our brain, the way we process complex information. Logic is part of our conscious thought. So this is not a problem or something to frown upon. It is just simply how our brain works. I didn’t look up any references for the following information, but as I’ve read somewhere, our emotions are always part of our logical thinking. It is like the subconscious computer in our brain, the way we process complex information. Logic is part of our conscious thought. So this is not a problem or something to frown upon. It is just simply how our brain works.

]]> By: justanotherusername http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html#comment-352847 justanotherusername Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352847 <i>What the results show is that, “Our sense of propriety when it comes to punishment is not the result of a single neural system,” Greene says.</i> Wow. What the results show is that, “Our sense of propriety when it comes to punishment is not the result of a single neural system,” Greene says.

Wow.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html#comment-352469 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352469 so what was that judge they caught using the penis pump thinking of? so what was that judge they caught using the penis pump thinking of?

]]> By: happykittybunny http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html#comment-352726 happykittybunny Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352726 The idea that there is a difference between "rational thought" and "emotion", and that there are different parts of the brain for it is so stupid that it's laughable. This is an example of what Minsky calls a "dumbell theory", where there is an insurmountable temptation to divide everything into two opposing parts in order to understand it. Emotion and rational thought are the same thing. They are all part of thinking. There are probably hundreds of different agencies in the brain which are enabled in hierarchies of control and supression or stimulation. Dividing it into "emotional" and "rational" is really less than useless. The idea that there is a difference between “rational thought” and “emotion”, and that there are different parts of the brain for it is so stupid that it’s laughable.

This is an example of what Minsky calls a “dumbell theory”, where there is an insurmountable temptation to divide everything into two opposing parts in order to understand it.

Emotion and rational thought are the same thing. They are all part of thinking. There are probably hundreds of different agencies in the brain which are enabled in hierarchies of control and supression or stimulation. Dividing it into “emotional” and “rational” is really less than useless.

]]> By: thequickbrownfox http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html#comment-352746 thequickbrownfox Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352746 I mean these things can be useful for pointing out blood-clots and tumors and such, but these "studies" that appear everywhere in the tabloid media are just images of ephemeral synaptic activity. http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/this-is-your-brain-this-is-your-brain-on-politics-any-questions/ I mean these things can be useful for pointing out blood-clots and tumors and such, but these “studies” that appear everywhere in the tabloid media are just images of ephemeral synaptic activity.

http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/this-is-your-brain-this-is-your-brain-on-politics-any-questions/

]]> By: zuzu http://boingboing.net/2008/12/10/neuroscience-of-just.html#comment-352493 zuzu Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352493 Interesting implications for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_realism" rel="nofollow">legal realism</a>. Interesting implications for legal realism.

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