Neurophilosopher argues morality is rooted in brain science, not reason
This is just a confused article which sets up a dichotomy between reason and brain science.<p>First off every human question could be, at least theoretically, reduced to &quot;brain science&quot;, because all we got is brains, this is just true by definition unless you invoke some sort of magic.<p>However this isn&#x27;t actually a good argument for ditching higher level concepts. Reason doesn&#x27;t stand in conflict to brain science, Talking about moral issues in terms of reason or even divine judgement or whatever is engaging in a higher level of abstraction, which can be vital to aid in creating meaning.<p>When you try to understand the meaning of a work of fiction you don&#x27;t go around and count individual letters in the book and try to decipher the shape of the letter &#x27;A&#x27;, you look at emerging properties of the story and how things hang together in the broadest, not the narrowest, sense of the term. Likewise when discussing morality, it probably isn&#x27;t very fruitful to try looking at chemicals in synapses for the same reason it&#x27;s not very fruitful to try to argue about software programs by counting electrons in semiconductors.