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| Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ April 26 2010,01:06) | BJRay:
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BTW, your morality citations do not prove anything but that scientists have written on the matter. What's the foundation for? I propose it's non-material. IE: YOU WON"T FIND IT in some gene somewhere.
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From NPR:
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The problem is that Isabelle has Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder with a number of symptoms. The children are often physically small and often have developmental delays. But also, kids and adults with Williams love people and are pathologically trusting: They literally have no social fear.
Researchers theorize that this is probably because of a problem with the area in their brain that regulates the manufacture and release of oxytocin. Somehow, the system in which oxytocin operates has been disrupted in a way that makes it essentially biologically impossible for kids like Isabelle to distrust.
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It turns out that our brains have a mechanism for trusting others, one that has a quite-evident biological (that is, material) basis.
This is not the only behavior that impacts morality that has a biological basis, not by a long shot. It's just one that was covered on the radio a couple of days ago. |
May I offer this as further evidence: Children who form no racial sterotypes
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Rocks have no biology.
Robert Byers.
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