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Scientists have isolated parts of the brain and hormones that make us participate in hardcore realities, like sex, violence, dominance, and even war. But why have they been unable to find a love drive, or a justice instinct, or a peace hormone?  They may have found some relative correlative inContinue Reading

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Atavism: yet another gift from ecosystems to which we pay no attention.  Atavistic traits are always waiting in our genes to reappear when we need them. Contrary to the saying that youth is wasted on the young, atavism is the wisdom of the ancients bestowed on the latest generation inContinue Reading

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The fact that not even just our senses, but our minds are so rooted in pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of fear, and that we have lost any ability to be happy, might have evolved that way simply because we came from animals.  But although animals do operate byContinue Reading