Yet he has lost many of the most quintessential attributes that define human nature: ambition, empathy, foresight, a complex personality, a sense of morality, and a sense of dignity as a human being. (Interestingly, a lack of empathy, moral standards, and self-restraint are also frequently seen in sociopaths, and the neurologist Antonio Damasio has pointed out they may have some clinically undetected frontal dysfunction.)