Are Moral Error Theorists Intellectually Vicious?

Explanatory pluralism: An unrewarding prediction error for free energy theorists.

Courtesy of its free energy formulation, the hierarchical predictive processing theory of the brain (PTB) is often claimed to be a grand unifying theory. To test this claim, we examine a central case: activity of mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic (DA) systems. After reviewing the three most prominent hypotheses of DA activity-the anhedonia, incentive salience, and reward prediction error hypothese...

Moral Principles Are Not Moral Laws

Experimentalists and theorists are still celebrating the Nobel - worthy

www.physicstoday.org S ymmetries and other regularities of the physical world make science a useful endeavor, yet the world around us is characterized by complex mixtures of regularities with individual differences, as exemplified by the words on this page. The dialectic of simple laws accounting for a complex world was only sharpened with the development of relativity and quantum mechanics and...

Neurocognitive Decrements are Present in Intellectually Superior Schizophrenia

Data suggest that individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) and superior intelligence can present without specific neurocognitive deficits. However, neurocognitive decrements, defined as worse cognition than expected, have been reported in practically all SZ cases. This study investigated if neurocognitive decrements are present in intellectually superior SZ by comparing the neuropsychological profil...

Moral Discourse: Error-Ridden or Relatively Defensible?