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Read more: Special report: Morality put to the test
We are figuring out how the brain and its chemicals give rise to moral and social values, says Patricia Churchland
WHERE do moral values come from? Not from Plato’s heaven, nor from any other. Aristotle, Confucius and Darwin all recognised valuing as a basic function of biological creatures generally, and moral valuing as a basic function of highly social and intelligent animals like humans. Until very recently, however, science could not explain how brains, built by gene networks interacting with the environment, give rise to morality.…
