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Philosophers have argued over this claim for a quarter of a millennium without resolution. Time's up! Now scientists armed with brain scanners are stepping in to settle the matter. So far it looks like Hume was onto something; though reason can shape moral judgment, emotion is often decisive, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Brain: How We Make Life-and-Death Decisions | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

But suppose the only way to save the five people is to push someone else onto the track--a bystander whose body will bring the trolley to a halt before it hits the others. It's still a one-for-five swap, and you still initiate the action that dooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Brain: How We Make Life-and-Death Decisions | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

These cranial wrestling matches could be televised. As people ponder a moral dilemma, brain scans show changing activity levels in a part of the brain linked to abstract reasoning and cognitive control. In brains that take the utilitarian path, this part strengthens until dominant; in brains that refuse to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Brain: How We Make Life-and-Death Decisions | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

"Moderately messy systems outperform extremely orderly systems," says Eric Abrahamson, Columbia University professor of management and co-author of A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder (Little, Brown). Abrahamson, a scholar of organizational behavior who admits to being a bit of a mess, says the costs of maintaining order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Messy is the New Neat | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

Modern scientists have done a far better job of things, dividing the brain into multiple, discrete regions with satisfyingly technical names--hypothalamus, caudate nucleus, neocortex--and mapping particular functions to particular sites. Here lives abstract thought; here lives creativity; here is emotion; here is speech. But what about here and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Map Of The Brain | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

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