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INSIDE THE BRAINS OF PSYCHOPATHS. ?Not all psychopaths lack the ability to comprehend emotions felt?

By Glenn Reynolds

INSIDE THE BRAINS OF PSYCHOPATHS. “Not all psychopaths lack the ability to comprehend emotions felt by others. It isn’t that they lack the ability to model the emotions of others. Rather, their emotional reaction to their own modeling of others is different than it is in most people. This is, by the way, why I fear future artificial intelligences. I do not expect they will have behavior-restraining empathy.” Not unless it’s designed in. Some people are working on how to do that.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 29, 2011 (boomark / email).