Showing posts with label Neuroscience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Neuroscience. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Neuroscience is capturing Visual Stimuli in the Brain
Neuroscience capturing visual stimuli with the help of DARPA funding. Paul Sajda is helping science understand how the brain attends novelty.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Neuroscientist Argues Science can Answer Moral Questions
Sam Harris – Neuroscientist – Science has Answers to Moral Issues
Sam Harris, a partner of Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett and Christopher Hitches, argues that science can answer questions of good and evil, right and wrong and does not have to defer to religions. He further argues that religion is manifestly unfit to decide these issues in many cases. Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. He is the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society.
This is controversial stuff, for sure, but I think we are strong enough to handle all of the information from a wide variety of sources to inform our decisions and beliefs.
Sam Harris, a partner of Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett and Christopher Hitches, argues that science can answer questions of good and evil, right and wrong and does not have to defer to religions. He further argues that religion is manifestly unfit to decide these issues in many cases. Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. He is the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society.
This is controversial stuff, for sure, but I think we are strong enough to handle all of the information from a wide variety of sources to inform our decisions and beliefs.
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