Has anyone on the list looked in any detail at the link between brain damage and anti-social behaviour and the possible implications for hardwiring of moral capacity? Specifically has anyone looked at the contribution that brain damage or brain development disorders may make towards the development of autism, asperger's syndrome and the broad sweep of anti-social disorders and psychopathic conditions?
An article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/479405.stm includes the following intrguing quote in relation to damage to the prefrontal lobe: > The team also noticed a difference between those people brain injured > as children and those damaged as adults. The adult patients understood > moral and social rules but appeared unable to apply them to their own > lives. > > Those damaged at an early age seemed unable to learn the rules in the > first place, having as adults the moral reasoning skills of 10 year > olds. They also were more likely to exhibit psychopathic behaviour like > stealing and being violent. This reinforces my moderately uninformed intuition that the early learning of AGIs morality might be assisted by structurally dedicating some AGI 'brainspace' to constantly reviewing the external environment and internal thinking processes to consider the moral implications and to building in some sort of structure to motivate action on moral/ethical issues. To save clogging up the AGI list airwaves with my explorations of this subject I would be interested to know if anyone is interested in a low volume discussion outside the list. We could then report back to this list with any meaty information/ideas that we might come across or develop. Are there any other lists where these issues are discussed in relation to AGI development? Cheers, Philip ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
