CAL 103 Gazzaniga

           Gazzaniga has some good points when it comes to ethics and morality. The only way to survive about a thousand years to ago, was to create a family, or village, it allowed for people to watch out for one another. If someone is in danger you are more likely to save that person because later that person will help with your survival.

           My favorite part of his book is when he explains how people will not throw someone else to save the lives of 5 people and give up one life. Although using basic mathematics, you would be right to save the 5 people instead of 1, but what does it make you when you kill someone? The other observation was to use the button, I myself would abstain from pressing the button, who am I to decide the lives of others. If it was saving someone with no other repercussions, I would most defiantly save that person. Gazzaniga's point is to see why people are more moral people when it is up close and personal, it has to do with basic survival. Your primal instinct is to save someone, we are animals after all.
            Rizzolatti explains how if we figure out how we learn, we can break everything we do into "basic movements". I agree with him because it is true, we would not have come all this way without learning from someone else. After we learn how people use the mirror system, we can learn why we do anything. For example we have a basic way of learning, monkey see, monkey doesn't do because the other monkey died. Our mirror system on how to survive, what to do and what not to do. A good example of this would be the monkey's and banana's experiment. We learn how to survive by just watching others, this ensure our safety.
The monkey and banana's scenario: http://www.johnstepper.com/2013/10/26/the-five-monkeys-experiment-with-a-new-lesson/