Monday, February 28, 2011

Thoughtcrime? The ethics of neuroscience and criminality

One of the most thought-provoking sessions I attended at AAAS was "Nature, Nurture, and Antisocial Behavior: Biological and Biosocial Research on Crime." The three talks encompassed neurocognition, psychobiology, and a range of ethical issues that would make your brain spin if you thought about them hard enough. The topic has great potential for controversy, and it would be easy to interpret some of the data presented as an argument against free will. In some ways, however, I think it illustrates the mistake of thinking of nature and nuture as separate, when in reality the interplay between genetics and environment are inseparable, especially when it comes to criminal activity.

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