This weeks sticky. An offshoot on this thread here: http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?p=1440475#post1440475 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/313/5787/684 In short, the brain is wired to use emotion rather than reason for decision making. Also, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/315/5811/515 Losses have a greater impact than gains. This has provided a neural basis for the framing effect http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/313/5787/600b
No, what it means is that decisions made in the orbital frontal cortex can be influenced by framing, reducing the individual to remain in a 'prison' of habitually reverting to their emotions, further solidifying the frames and not accepting the rational decision.
Now how in the name of heaven do you reach that conclusion from this?Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! And this?
Emotion gives reason motivation and direction. "....we pretend to be constucting edifices of impartial thought, when actually we are selecting only such acts and agreements as will give dignity to some personal or patriotic wish." Will Durant, Mansions of Philosophy
Hume was ahead of Durant on the offices of reason and the passions. I don't know if anyone was chronologically ahead of Hume (as far as unequivocally going against the Socratic arithmetic reason + virtue = happiness (or, if you like, defining the formula away into nonsensehood)). This isn't surprising though. I could have sworn there's been some other science work reaching the same conclusions. Might just have been Nietzsche rambling about the History of an error though. I'll take some time and see if I'm confabulating.
This is the Biology forum, perhaps you might be considerate enough to indicate how you reached your conclusions? Or shall we take you on faith?Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Studies conducted by Michela Gallagher, professor of psychological and brain sciences with the department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins' University. The article, "Rapid Associative Encoding in Basolateral Amygdala," appeared in Volume 46, Issue 2 of the journal Neuron, published April 21, 2005.
So you believe that choosing the sure option over the risky option is an advancement in rationality? Why do you suppose lesions in the OFC have no discernible influence on the activation of outcome representation here: