That's an overly determinist view, and also a category confusion. You're making a moral judgment of alleged neurology. I would disagree completely with you as to both the physical neurology, and the separate morality.
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Replying to @Gurdur
Being an "overly deterministic view" doesn't make it wrong. And I don't see how I've made any "moral judgement of alleged neurology".
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Because you say " failure ... of the prefrontal cortex". That's a value judgment of alleged neurology. A value judgment of a natural fact. Hume's guillotine stops that.
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Replying to @Gurdur
No. I've made a functional judgement, not a moral one, in that the prefrontal cortex becomes maladapted in the same way as the alleged horns of the Irish Elk.
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Replying to @Gurdur
To simplify, let's instead use the original word, "failure". A heart fails when it has problems pumping blood. A liver fails when it has problems detoxifying the body. A prefrontal cortex fails when it has problems regulating social behaviour.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
You're still inserting value judgments in there. How do you rigorously define "problems of regulating social behavior"? P.S. humans, in the main, look REALLY good in behavior compared to baboons. So a lot of room there for social behavior differences.
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Replying to @Gurdur
I'd define going on a spree killing, or setting up a paedophile ring (i.e. what people would traditionally call "evil"), as problems regulating social behaviour.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
spree killing could be defined as malaption, yes. Though baboons would ask. "So what?" Setting up peadophile rings is something we judge using values; there is no prefrontal cortex abnormality that leads to that.
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You're wrong there: "These brain regions comprised areas known to be implicated in face processing, and sexual processing, including occipital areas, the ventrolateral PREFRONTAL cortex and, subcortically, the putamen and nucleus caudatus." http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/5/20140200.full?sid=aa702674-974f-4505-850a-d44dd4ef5a16 …
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