Informed consensus takes place in ...

Informed consensus takes place in the brain. While that appears obvious, the implications of that statement go on much deeper. To a great size both bioethics and federal policy are based in succession 17th century assumptions according to philosophers such as Descartes--who knew nothing of the arrangement and function of the brain.

In his 1994 part Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reasoning and the Human Brain, neurologist Antonio Damasio argues that reasoning is not simply an abstract philosophical concept, unless primarily a biological function of the brain. Despite Descartes' widely accepted separation of