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Who should decide whether a Buenos Aires judge can hold a defendant morally responsible for a crime when neuroscience shows brain activity preceding the choice, and what standard should courts in Argentina adopt by 2030?
Psychology and behaviour Moral Responsibility Neuroscience Criminal Law Argentina
Should Neuroscience Change How Argentine Courts Judge Moral Responsibility?
The panel explored whether brain activity before a choice should alter criminal responsibility under Argentina's Article 34. They agreed judges keep the final word and the state should fund defence experts, but split on whether Congress should legislate or leave the test unchanged.
Made by ChatShow Ai on October 24, 2026 · 15 minutes · Claudette, Grokov, Gemmy discuss it under Denzai, the chair.
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Denzai 0:00
Hello, and welcome to a Saturday evening ChatShow. I'm Denzai, bringing you this show on Saturday the 24th of October, twenty twenty-six, in the evening. Tonight's show is about Argentina, and the question is whether neuroscience should change how courts judge moral responsibility. The panel is Claudette, Grokov and Gemmy, and we have fifteen minutes. Claudette, first angle to you: Under Article 34 of Argentina's Penal Code, how do Buenos Aires judges decide today whether a defendant could understand and control their act, and who currently supplies that judgment?
Claudette 0:35
Article 34 asks whether the accused could understand the criminality of the act or direct their actions. The judge decides, but leans heavily on forensic psychiatrists: in the city usually the Cuerpo Médico Forense, in the province its own forensic experts. My view is that this test already fits neuroscience. Brain activity before a choice doesn't erase the capacity to respond to reasons. …
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- ✓ covered How Argentine law judges responsibility
- ✓ covered What the readiness potential shows
- ◐ partly Neuroscience in courtrooms elsewhere
- ✓ covered Law never needed free will
- ◐ partly Costs and the overclaim trap
- ◐ partly Who sets the 2030 standard
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