Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were able to disrupt part of the brain that is related to moral judgment by using a magnetic field applied to the scalp of study participants. Normal neural activity in that part of the brain was switched off, resulting in a “no harm, no foul” mentality.
Read Scientists able to manipulate morality on The Scotsman.
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Ox Drover
That makes me wonder what an MRI does to our brains. I remember “way back when” I was a kid and you went into a shoe store and they had an X ray machine that they checked to see if your shoes fit correctly—of course supposedly it was “harmless,” but of course now we know that RADIATION isn’t harmless by any stretch of the imagination and that while it does have definite uses for diagnosis we shouldn’t just X-ray everything.
I’ve had several MRIs for diagnostic purposes but always wondered what if any the long term effects could be…of course this still doesn’t answer that question, but does make me wonder more anyway.
Interesting experiment.
alohatraveler
If they can turn it off… can they turn it on?
And if they could, would a true sociopath want to flip the switch of conscience?
Probably not.
one/joy_step_at_a_time
really glad i placed all those omega shaped wires along the ley line today, to subvert the oh to active electo magnetic field running along the property line.
one/joy_step_at_a_time
aloha – GOOD question!
turning it on would probably be extremely punishing – all that unconscionable behavior intersecting with a conscience.
Ox Drover
Hello, Aloha Girl!
I think you are right, even if they could turn it on, the Ps might not like the feelings of conscience. Many people with Bi-polar seem to LIKE the manias and the highs they get from it and feel “bad” if the medication levels them out, so they quit their medication.
With a conscience, they might feel pretty badly or they’d have to change their ways, so probably wouldn’t work.
But the MRI didn’t effect me, effect me, effect me, effect me…..LOL
one/joy_step_at_a_time
Oxy, this is cribbed from one of Dr. Leedom’s posts here (don’t remember which one)
In Psychopaths in Everyday Life, a book by Robert Rieber, there is a great quote.It is,
“The true psychopath compels the psychiatric observer to ask the perplexing and largely unanswered question: Why doesn’t that person have the common decency to go crazy?”
So why don’t psychopaths have the common decency to go crazy? Dr. Rieber explains, “Since psychopaths act as if they were perfectly normal, i.e. sane, they must be skilled in a cunning manner to dissociate any real guilt that they should feel about their antisocial behavior.” He also says that since psychopaths dissociate, they don’t go crazy.’
Elizabeth Conley
On the lighter side:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/chimp-in-cocaine-study-starts-lying-to-friends,17176/
Ox Drover
Dear One-step,
Well, I DO dissociate when I am faced with what I think is impending death! Does that mean I’m not crazy? or does it mean I’m a psychopath? LOL (joke, just so no one misunderstands)
Yea I agree it would be nice if they would have the common decency ABOUT ANYTHING, actually. But they don’t.
Oh, well…that’s the nature of the critter!
one/joy_step_at_a_time
oxy – thanks for my first laugh of the day!
‘Yea I agree it would be nice if they would have the common decency ABOUT ANYTHING, actually.’ 🙂
one/joy_step_at_a_time
EC, the title alone is worth the price of admission!
and really – why was a human not used in this experiment? lots of peeps out there willing to ingest for free. why mess up a perfectly SANE chimp?