EVOLN OF MORLTY

Our righteous minds made it possible for human beings,” Haidt argues, “to produce large cooperative groups, tribes, and nations without the glue of kinship. But at the same time, our righteous minds guarantee that our cooperative groups will always be cursed by moralistic strife.” Thus, he shows, morality binds us together into cohesive groups but blinds us to the ideas and motives of those in other groups.


/////////////////led to the moral hive mind was a result of “shared intentionality,” which is “the ability to share mental representations of tasks that two or more of [our ancestors] were pursuing together. For example, while foraging, one person pulls down a branch while the other plucks the fruit, and they both share the meal.


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//////////////////////convinced that life was a mixed bag and that things have improved and degraded


///////////////////CONNECTOME BRAIN -Hebb’s rule to: “Cells that fire together, wire together.


/////////////SCIAM- brain and mind are separate entities. The human brain is just a computer made of biological hardware. The mind system is a software system being processed by the cortex. That software is stored as weights on the neurons, not somehow embedded in the brain, or in the connectome designs. So neither the brain nor the connectome is “you”. You are the sum of information stored in memory (the learned software system). The Home sapiens version of the software system that develops over someone’s lifespan is what psychologists study. When you are born you have a brain, but no mind, because only a trivial amount of learned information has been accumulated, and it takes years to make a person.



//////////////The problem with seeing it as a "Software" vs. "Hardware" is this: At some level, all software is stored by a physical change in hardware.

Whether that's transistors set to a particular position or the specific pattern of grooves in a DVD, "software" is not physically, intrinsically independent of hardware like you say it is. Software must change the hardware in order to store and process information.


/////////////primitive fish named Acanthodes bronni was the common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates on Earth – including mankind, according to new research.



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Venkatesh Rao, on technology

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature"

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