"Gazzaniga believes the brain "enables" the mind, but mental activity is not reducible to neural events. While he states that thoughts, perceptions, memories, intentions and the exercise of the will are emergent phenomena, he adds that "calling a property emergent does not explain it or how it came to be." Crucially, the true locus of this activity is not in the isolated brain but "in the group interactions of many brains," which is why "analyzing single brains in isolation cannot illuminate the capacity of responsibility." The community of minds is where our human consciousness is to be found, woven out of the innumerable interactions that our brains make possible. Juries and judges have little idea of the shakiness of the connections between minor abnormalities on brain scans and the commission of a particular crime. Neuro-law is not merely premature; it overlooks the fact that, as Gazzaniga says, "we are people, not brains," and brain scans tell us little about our personhood." - Adriano

Gazzaniga's 2011 master class on Neuroscience and Justice: http://edge.org/convers... 60-min video lecture - Adriano

Saw this last link only now. Thanks :-) - Maitani