On the intersection between descriptive ethics and cognitive neuroscience

DESCRIPTIVE ETHICS studies empirically the moral views, principles, thoughts, intuitions and emotions held by people. Descriptive ethics studies resemblances and differences among moral views, systems, theories and traditions. COGNITIVE/AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE is the field of mind and brain research that investigates the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of cognition and emotion.

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Friday, January 21, 2011

On Being No One: Neuroscience and the myth of the self (a lecture by philosopher and cognitive scientist Thomas Metzinger)

"The self is an illusion that is no one's illusion"

"The tragedy of the ego disolves because strictly speaking nobody is ever born and nobody ever dies"