[MD] Science catching up

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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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