With excerpts from the wonderful Big Ideas site, we start a new series, "The Headline and the Content ." In this series we continue our attempt to highlight modern scientific thinking, scientific thought, and the reality which is not always consonant with the goals of the former. Still considering naming this series, The Daily Giggle. Characteristic of our series is the fact the editor may change the formatting (spacing only) of the article highlighted. On with the flow:
The Headline:
The Content:
....How can courts prescribe sentences that, using scientific data, work to rehabilitate convicts rather than simply incarcerate them? Eagleman proposes
informing criminals of how their brains work,
using brain scans to show them which parts activate when they are thinking of committing a crime.
In this way, he says, they can work to influence their own thought patterns away from bad behavior.
The Headline:
HOW LAW WOULD WORK WITHOUT FREE WILL
The Content:
....How can courts prescribe sentences that, using scientific data, work to rehabilitate convicts rather than simply incarcerate them? Eagleman proposes
informing criminals of how their brains work,
using brain scans to show them which parts activate when they are thinking of committing a crime.
In this way, he says, they can work to influence their own thought patterns away from bad behavior.
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