Why We Do What We Shoo Be Do Be Do

recently discovered: mirror neurons. Find out how these mimicking cells help us survive cocktail parties, keep society humming, and even give rise to the concept of self.

Also, are humans born with a moral code? And, if human behavior is hard-wired – whatever becomes of free will?

Guests: Marc Hauser – Evolutionary psychologist and biologist at Harvard, author of Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong

Take Marc’s Moral Sense Test Marco Iacoboni – Psychologist and neuroscientist at UCLA and the author of Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others Allen Stairs – Philosopher at the University of Maryland John-Dylan Haynes – Neuroscientist, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin show less...