Spock's Brain

The most of were taught us that the ethical thought, the decisions and the behavior are a product of logic and the reason, and the emptiness of emotions and of sensations. Ethics more was looked at as Spock and less as Kirk of Captain.

But there is an agreement growing that the moral judgements principally are based on the intuition ae” 'the instinctive sensations' of which one is just or bad in the special cases. Sometimes these intuitions cause the conflict, in and between the individuals. And the emotions play a role criticizes and more precise.

Since the time of the old Greeks, we supposed that the humans are rational creatures. When we take a decision, we are supposed consciemment to analyze the alternate ones and weighs carefully the professionels and the against. This simple idea underlies the philosophies of Plato and Descartes; it forms economical modern science foundation; it drove decades of research in the cognitive science. Progressively, rationality came to define us. The it was, simply to put, which we did the human.

According to Dr. Michael Gershon, the author Of The Brain of Second: The Scientific Basis for Instinct of Entrails, there is only a problem with this assumption: The it is bad. The this is not how the brain works. For the first time in the human history, we can look in our brain and see how we think. It is that we were not organized to be rational or logical or notably deliberate even. Rather, our spirit holds a network in disorder of different sectors, a lot of which is implied with the emotion production.

Dr. Gershon consecrated his career to the comprehension of the human intestine (the stomach, the esophagus, the small intestine, and the two points). Its thirty years of research took to a rediscovered extraordinary one: the nerve cells in the entrails that use a brain. This "the second brain" can check our entrails all by himself. Our two brains -- the the one in our head and it the one in our intestine -- must cooperate. Themselves they do not do, then there is the chaos in the entrails and the misery in the head -- all of the "butterflies" to the crampes, diarrhea to the constipation. Dr. the work of Gershon took to the new radical comprehensions of a big variety of gastrointestinal problems including gastroenteritis, to the nervous stomach, and to the syndrome of irritable intestine. "The Brain of Second" represents a jump quantique in the medical knowledge and takes advantage already of the patients of which the symptoms beforehand were dismissed as neurotic or "the this all is in your head".

The instinctive reactions, it is, can have a higher rate of precision in their capacity to predict the exit then the projects more carefully put and "scientific". In its Sensations of Entrails of book: The intelligence of the Unconscious one. Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer, the director of the Institute of Planck of Max for Human Development, defines to Berlin "the instinctive reactions" as a judgement that is quick and comes quickly in a conscience of the person. The no one knows not why they have this sensation nevertheless this is rather strong to do to act them over. "That an instinctive instinct is not is a calculation. You do not know completely where it comes from". According to Gigerenzer an instinctive reaction can be reactions if precise because instinctive that do them the big usage of the stunning capacities of the brain that the nature spent billion years in the evolution to help survives us. And the emotions play a critical role.

Jonah Lehrer, the author of How We Decide, we dispute that we were not organized to be rational or logical or notably deliberate even. Rather, our spirit holds a network in disorder of different sectors, a lot of which is implied with the emotion production. When we take a decision, the brain is flooded in the sensation, driven by its inexplicable passions. Even when we try to be reasonable and restricted, these emotional impulses secret influence our judgement.

It would not be the shock if we learned that the immoral behavior is helped instead of prevented by the reason?

In an experience collection by bodily chen-odeur Zhong of the University of Toronto, it put the test subjects in the interactions with an anonymous partner where they had two options: To treat their partners enough or lie to them. Themselves they decided to remain, they would win to the detriment of their partners. Before taking the decision to cheat or be fails it, the half groups it test was encouraged to think rationally position and neglect their emotions. Considering this counsel, the majority (60%) analyzed the position and concluded that they should cheat their partners. The other half of the group of test was counseled to take their decision base on "the instinctive sensations". Only 27% of them remained and cheated their partners.

Zhong retrieved another interesting phenomena in his experience. When its subjects were given to a choice to react mutually with a partner of take of rational decision, vs. an entrails proud emotional partner, 75% chose the rational partner. Zhong concluded that "The processes ripely reflect can authorize questionable behaviors while setting up itself on the tangible monetary exits and reducing emotional influence".

The ethical behavior could have played a significant role in the krach of Wall Street recent. Mike Francis, that worked to Morgan Stanley before the economical, swiped collapse of the numerous questionable hypotha¨ques, including the returned no, no variety of well, meaning that the bank could not verify the income of the customer or the goods. The responses clienteles would not be verified, and a significant number of customers furnished complaints of fictitious income. As retrieved in American life, Francis said, "The banks established you to remain. .. We did it because everyone did it".

So which was the lesson for a lot of workers of Wall Street: If you enrich yourself, and follow the rules, although your entrails or the heart says you it cannot be ethical, your spirit can furnish you always a justification. If to look at behind on the debacle of hypotha¨que of under apogee, the only precise information were not rational or logical, the it was entrails of the people feeling.

The this is a lesson for us all that the logic and rationalilty do not do took alone to the better one or ethics decisions. When you are in a morally loaded position, and your instinctive speeches to you, listen!