David Eagleman on the Brain and the Law

From theRSAorg:

Dr David Eagleman considers some questions relating to law and neuroscience, challenging long-held assumptions in criminality and punishment and predicting a radical new future for the legal system.

[Eagleman’s examples in the first 15 minutes will  strike long-term readers of The Situationist as non-novel.  For others, that portion of the video may be a useful primer to neurolaw.]

Related Situationist Posts:

• Dan Dennett at Harvard Law on “Free Will, Responsibility, and the Brain”
• “Interview with Professor Joshua Greene,”
• “Daniel Dennett on the Situation of our Brain,”
• “Dan Dennett on our Interior Situation,”
• “Bargh and Baumeister and the Free Will Debate,”
• “Bargh and Baumeister and the Free Will Debate – Part II,”
• “The Death of Free Will and the Rise of Cheating,”
• “Clarence Darrow on the Situation of Crime and Criminals,”
• “Person X Situation X System Dynamics,” “Situation” Trumps “Disposition” – Part I & Part II,”
• “The (Unconscious) Situation of our Consciousness – Part I, Part II, Part III, & Part IV” and
• “Coalition of the Will-less.”