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“Religions try to impose rules of morality by writing them on stone tablets,” he says. “We do have a real problem now, because when we abandon conventional religion, we don’t know what rules to follow anymore. But when you peel it all back, religion and ethical rules provide a way of structuring human behavior in a way that allows a functioning society. My feeling is that all of morality operates at that level. It’s an evolutionary process in which societies constantly perform experiments, and whether or not those experiments succeed determines which cultural ideas and moral precepts propagate ...more
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
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