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Behavior, Biology, and Prison Sentences
David Eagleman, writing long-form in The Atlantic, explores the curious and complicated intersection that is now being researched by neuroscientists between human biology and behavior – and what exactly this may mean for our criminal justice systems:
The lesson from all these stories is the same: human behavior cannot be separated from human biology. If we like to believe that people make free choices about their behavior (as in, “I don’t gamble, because I’m strong-willed”), cases like Alex the pedophile, the frontotemporal shoplifters, and the gambling Parkinson’s patients may encourage us to examine our views more carefully. Perhaps not everyone is equally “free” to make socially appropriate choices.