In the long run, the most successful ideologies are going to be those that are best aligned with evolution. Unfortunately, evolution tends to be very unpleasant for its participants. At some point, we may have to choose between favoring ethics or life.
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So far I'm with you. But we're still the same humans. So we are constucting ever more complex ideas to satisfy our old reward system.
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I thought so, too. Now I realize that our reaction to pleasure and pain is a function of higher level regulation. We can build our own reward system if we can fully master our own attention. (Our puny little brains mean that we'll always be bad at physics, chess and Go, though.)
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