Un cervell ètic?

Can neuroscience tell us what is right and wrong? It is difficult to deny that
there is an intimate connection between brain and behavior, and a special relationship
between our brains and ourselves. In recent decades, neuroscientists
and philosophers have discovered that they always return to the same
questions: conscience, the self, perception, thought, feelings, will, intentionality,
morality, etc. Functional neuroimaging does not show human thought
per se but only correlates of certain functions involved. It is an indirect approach
that generates important ethical, legal and social questions. Its growing
popularity, the expectations generated and the emerging commercial,
educational and legal applications have led to a surge of publications in strictly
scientific journals and in others dedicated to areas such as ethics or law, although
there is a notable lack of communication between them. In this article,
we review what we currently know about the neurological basis of ethics
from a philosophy of science perspective, defending the idea that there is no
ethics module in the brain, if we