Braintrust
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality
Morality traced to the neurobiology of attachment and care rather than to rules handed down.
Churchland argues that morality grows out of the neurobiology of attachment, meaning the oxytocin systems that bind mammals to their young and then, by extension, to kin and community, rather than from rules or pure reason. An early statement of what neuroscience can and cannot contribute to ethics.
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Bruce Schneier
Braintrust, by the neuroscientist Patricia Churchland. This book is about the neuroscience of morality. It was published in 2011. This is a brand new field of science, and new discoveries are happening all the time. Morality is the most basic of societal pressures, and Churchland explains how it works.
Interview · February 2012
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