Hmmmm. Why would the mind work that way? It doesn't seem advantageous to believe our own BS. Although that is often what we do. Yes that would have huge implications for criminal justice. I suspect that even though brain imaging is a very huge break through it is still a crude tool and it is probably much more complicated.

I am reading Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist, "How the Mind Works". I am not far into it but I bet he will get to decision making. So far he has talked a lot about computational theory and information processing. He has mentioned that our brains have to rely on pre conceived notions if how the world is. Both from genetics and life experience and natural selection. The mind cannot possibly make sense of the world without concepts pre embedded.

I am not sure if I have that right because I haven't even finished the first chapter. Steven Pinker is brilliant though and I look forward to reading it now.

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