robkelk Wrote:ABC News: Brain's Moral Compass Shifted With MagnetsThey were only about 15% more likely to respond that way, however, so it's not a sure thing by any means. And anyway, going from a "you could have harmed someone" to "no harm, no foul" is becoming only slightly more amoral. I'd be more concerned if they were able to make people's reactions to a hypothetical event that did kill someone go from "that's terrible" to "oh well, it's not like it was me".
Basically, MIT researchers were able to turn off people's morals by applying magnetic fields to certain parts of their brains. (For example, the response to a hypothetical event that could have killed someone but didn't was changed from "that could have been bad so don't do that" to "no harm, no foul".) When the fields were removed, the subjects' morals returned.
Chris Davies.