At Last: Responsible Brain-Research Reporting

Thank you to Amanda Gardner, who wrote the article at healthfinder.gov on "The Brain's Free Will Center." Recently the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the London Times have published articles on brain science and concluded that there is no soul, no basis to ethics, and so on. (You can find links to those articles from here.) I was expecting this article to say that there's no such thing as free will. It doesn't.

And it couldn't say that; not without jumping off to all kinds of unwarranted conclusions (of course, that didn't stop those other three newspapers from doing the same). The research said that there appear to be separate centers in the brain, one for planning and doing things, the other for deciding not to do them. One for action, one for inhibition. Somewhere, we make decisions. That somewhere remains scientifically unidentified. I predict it will remain that way.

Hat Tip to Bradford at Telic Thoughts

Posted: Tue - August 28, 2007 at 09:02 AM |

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At Last: Responsible Brain-Research Reporting

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