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somewhere, william gibson's ears are burning

"Researchers now spend a lot of time trying to understand universal moral intuitions. Genes are not merely selfish, it appears. Instead, people seem to have deep instincts for fairness, empathy and attachment."

Man, I'd certainly like to think so. In any case, "neural Buddhism" has a nice ring to it.

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as a transcendent being i can override the empathy response (unlike you pathetic socially evolved creatures)

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