Season 2 Episode 12 – Moral Injury, Forgiveness and Cognitive Flexibility

What is moral injury, and how can we use it as a path to cognitive flexibility, sense of purpose and forgiveness?

In this episode, we explore the following:

– what is moral injury
– what is morality and how it can be used to improve energy efficiency and resilience of the human species
– how forgiveness and flexibility help us activate highly sophisticated and evolved neural mechanisms
– that brain activations that are different in trauma compared with moral injury
– how the human species is an interconnected network of nodes that requires social signaling for trust and cooperation