From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 16:54:40 MST
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011126/sc/health_decisions_dc_1.html
> In the report presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North
> America, Shibata said X-rays of the brains of people in the act of making decisions that
> affected their own lives showed an increase in mental activity in their prefrontal lobes, the
> area where emotions are generated.
...simply amazing.
The prefrontal lobes are involved in planning, period. Damage to the
frontal lobes impairing planning and self-control has also been known
about, for over a century, I believe. Whatever original discovery this
researcher made, it didn't make it into the press release.
Again, I think this is probably an instance of the generic headline
"Researcher Asked To Explain Complex Discovery; Press Release Author
Misunderstands Completely." Use of the term "X-rays" is further evidence.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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