Reddit mentions of Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality

My main field is neuroscience, so I want to recommend you everything by Patricia Churchland, but here's a nice starting place: Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality

> That is, explain love, free-will, morality (if you believe such things exist) - as being nothing more than a shared genetic pre-disposition. How can we make moral judgments without an ultimate morality?

What if "morality, love, free-will" are the result of our genes? DNA is very complex. Our brains are very complex and wondrous things by themselves.

I put math as something very close to love and other more romantic concepts; they are purely abstractions, created by humans and the consequence of our own brain. Some people understand math very well, others understand love by using poetry, music, for example. It turns out that math helps us describe the world; love, morality, free-will may well help us understand human interaction.

There have been some interesting developments in this area from a purely scientific perspective.

We shouldn't forget that humans once believed the earth was the center of the universe. Same thing here: we don't understand enough of how the brain works to make statements right now, but that doesn't mean we should answer "God".