Babies take 'good or evil' puppet morality test

 
This short video shows babies choosing 'good' co-operative characters over 'bad' selfish characters. The beginnings of morality perhaps.

The foundations of morality

The following video examines the assumption that morality and religion are somehow linked and shows how philosophy, reason and science gives access to morality.

Looking forward not back

This article in Live Science suggests that one of the main reasons we see optical illusions is the fact that all our visual imputs suffer a short, approximately tenth of a second, delay. In order to compensate for this our visual cortex does not contsruct reality as it receives data but instead predicts reality as it is about to be. 

We don't see what is or what was but what our brains think is actually going on in real time. This explains many optical illusions which present contradictory information about future shapes and movements.  

Where is your mind?

An intriguing answer to this question is provided by Raymond Tallis in the first section of this week's Start the Week, which you can listen to here or subscribe to the podcast here. He rejects both dualism and scientific reductionism.

Empathy at the Zoo

In this video an orangutan notices a baby bird in distress and uses a tool to help it. This is an example of cross species empathy.

Randomness and determinism