Jan 242011
Ummm… neato?
Scientists Disrupt Moral Reasoning With Magnets To The Skull
Short form… magnetic fields properly applied to test subjects brains reduced the percieved immorality of harming others.
It would be interesting to see if similar magnetic tinkering can *increase* the sense of “it’s wrong to hurt people” felt by psychopaths and the like.
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U.S. Patents: 395114, 5507291, 3773049, and 5480374. I found these while looking for something else.
Turns out, morality has an “off” switch
Nothing new about that. It’s called Tequila.
How much of a magnetic influence is a cell phone? Most of the college kids around here live with their phones stuffed against their temple, and that may explain some of their behavior if there’s sufficient gauss.