Dr. Antoine Bechara talks about the IOWA Gambling Task

[justgivemethetruth]

I was just reading about this.  They say, well Wikipedia says ... 

>> Patients with OFC dysfunction, however, continue to perseverate
>> with the bad decks, sometimes even though they know that they
>> are losing money overall

I find this really interesting.  Are they saying that you can diagnose
some kind of brain dysfunction based on people who stick with what
the might feel are bad decks?

It seems to me that this is a way of thinking that might not work in
this highly artificial doctored case.

If someone sits me down at a table for 4 decks of cards my intellect
is going to tell me that they are random.  Is that right or wrong?  When
one deck starts to give me bad cards, if I think the decks are
equally random and do not think or imagine that the decks themselves
are corrupted, why would I listen to some kind of gut feeling to not
go to those decks.

I see the same thing when I play backgammon.  Sometimes the dice
are terrible.  What should my reaction be to that?  If the dice are random,
and in real life they are random, in online backgammon, probably not,
should I adjust my style of play to behave as if the dice are going to
always be loaded in my opponent's favor?  How long do I do that?

What would the rationale for that be, and how do you intellectually
make that decision?

Or, on the other hand are they saying that people with OFC dysfunction
just tend to do this and it is not really related to their OFC or thinking
process?

Sometimes your brain says, a situation cannot be doing what it is
doing, and so it ignores it, as if the world is against you and you brain
recognizes paranoid thinking, except when they world really is against
you, uh, statistically?

If you screw with someone's experience statistically can you then
program their thinking process, and has this been recognized and done,
and why should that be legal or moral?