She's baaack. My girl crush continues with this latest TED video featuring the empress of MIT's eponymous Saxelab, Rebecca Saxe.
Saxe studies human theory of mind and morality.
She discusses her experiment involving the hypothetical case of a white powder that is either labeled "poison" but is sugar or labeled "sugar" but is poison.
How much moral blame a subject assigns someone who places the powder in a friend's coffee in each scenario can actually be altered by running magnetic currents through the subject's RBTJ, a part of the brain that controls moral reasoning.
After her presentation, the moderator says he hopes Saxe isn't taking any calls from the Pentagon on her work.
"I'm not. I mean, they're calling, but I'm not taking the call," quips Becks.
Love her.
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1 comments:
I must confess I found her a little hard to follow. And that's probably because of the necessary brevity of the lecture, but I don't know if I could piece it all together.
You make a good deal more sense to me than she does. But I'm glad you like her, and I wish we all had someone to explain for us just what we are talking about, to make our thoughts less random, with more design.
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