{"id":1490,"date":"2011-12-29T13:21:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T20:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2011-12-29T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T20:21:48","slug":"trust-in-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/12\/29\/trust-in-neurons\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust in Neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanscientist.org\/bookshelf\/pub\/trust-in-neurons\">This review in American Scientist<\/a>\u00a0claims that, despite its subtitle, Patricia Churchland&#8217;s book doesn&#8217;t tell us much about morality. And in a sense, if the description is true (and I&#8217;ll find out soon), then I am inclined to agree since I see a big difference between &#8220;morality&#8221; and &#8220;moral behaviour&#8221;. \u00a0But I still expect to find \u00a0lots of interest in the neuroscience of moral behaviour (trust and cooperation), and I \u00a0see that as foundational to a further study of the basis of actual morality itself (which I identify with the <em>dis<\/em>trust and enforcement behaviours that are necessary in a population in order for moral behaviour patterns to survive and prosper).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This review in American Scientist\u00a0claims that, despite its subtitle, Patricia Churchland&#8217;s book doesn&#8217;t tell us much about morality. And in a sense, if the description is true (and I&#8217;ll find out soon), then I am inclined to agree since I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/12\/29\/trust-in-neurons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}