Decisions Responsibility and the Brain

Neuroscientist Patricia Churchland explores how the human mind functions in guiding one's decisions. Series: Grey Matters [5/2006] [Science] [Show ID: 11190]

Category:

Education

Tags:

• neurology
• brain
• research
• mind
• decision-making

[hermafroditt]

Brilliant woman and a very nice lecture. Thanks for uploading!

[tokotokotoko3]

3:25 to get to the talk.

[ClamCrunchy]

@StyleAmericana A slave to empirical evidence? What should one make deicisons upon, if not evidence? Should one instead hold beliefs and make claims based on no evidence instead?

[Clearlight76]

Dear StyleAmericana, are you aware of a more powerful way of weighing and measuring the large and profound realities that you speak of? The scientific method often receives criticism when it fails to confirm our preconceived ideas about reality.

[StyleAmericana]

Interesting philosophies based on sophistic logic yet, unfortunately, another academician who is a slave to empirical evidence (and loves to hear herself talk…adulation truly is poison).

You must be able to consider that the largest and most profound realities are outside science’s puny ability to weigh and measure them. Her view is far too narrow and restrictive.

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted, counts. A. Einstein

[phillipsmerritt]

I found this lecture very informative and humorous, coming from a Canadian.

[verbose1981]

Hearing her swallow all the time is very annoying..

[1974freud]

Thanks for sharing, i'll keep that in mind.

[bando8000]

If we are to make progress we must make the connection between the underlying law of nature and the subject of this talk.