I like to think of the brain as a large, never-finished construction site, jointly engineered by genes and experience...born-again-atheist wrote:Ain't a lot of our behaviour in our genes? And ain't our brain, on account of it being 'abstract' (What is, what it ought to be, and what we want are all possibilities), our "tool" for fighting against them/ignoring them? Or is our brain as much a tool of our genes as the rest of our body?
Scientists discover moral compass in the brain
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Re: Scientists discover moral compass in the brain
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
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Re: Scientists discover moral compass in the brain
Unfinished, yet operational?
It's a trap!
It's a trap!
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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Re: Scientists discover moral compass in the brain
As Woody Allen once said: "My brain is my second-favourite organ"born-again-atheist wrote:Unfinished, yet operational?
It's a trap!
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
And my gin!
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