September 09, 2011

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.

July 18, 2011

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.


July 01, 2011

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.