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Jan 2012
16m 48s

Brain Chemistry and Moral Decision-Makin...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Answers to moral questions, it seems, depend on how much serotonin there is flowing through your brain. In the future might we be able to alter people's moral behaviour with concoctions of chemicals? A train is hurtling towards five people; it's out of control. You are standing on a footbridge, standing next to a very obese man. The only way to save the five ... Show More
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