Researchers in Zurich suspect that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex may act as a sort of governor on self-interest, perhaps raising the question of whether morality itself is built-in to the brain. I wonder how long it will be until moral relativists claim a physiological basis to their beliefs. Or will creationists snap it up first as evidence of divine design?
Personally, I'm more interested in a jet-powered laptop.
Recursions of Green (poems from old notebooks, January 2011)
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There’s a poem where you step out of a fountain’s column of water, morning
sun low behind you, and the water stops as you leave it, column branching
in wid...
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