[MD] Science catching up

[Micah]

Platt,

The creative force behind the world's order? (which of course assumes that
there is order to the world, without proof)

Micah


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Quoting Micah <micah at roarkplumbing.com>:

> Platt,
>
> Is the answer Jesus?
>
> Micah

What's the question?


> Hi All,
>
> In today's NY Times is a review of a new book by Mark D. Hauser, a Harvard
> biologist, entitled "Moral Minds." In it he claims "people are born with a
> moral grammar wired into their neural circuits by evolution." He argues
> that grammar "generates instant moral judgments which . . . are
> inaccessible to the conscious mind."
>
> In other words, Pirsig's morality of direct experience prior to
> intellectual conceptions.
>
> Of course like most people today, Hauser limits moral decisions to human
> societies, attributing our moral instinct to "restraints on behavior are
> required by social living and have been favored by natural selection
> because of their survival value." Maybe at some future time scientists and
> others will escape from the language prison of social morality to
> understand that right and wrong are not exclusively the province of  human
> society, but the creative force behind the world's order.
>
> But, don't hold your breath.
>
> Best,
> Platt
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