- The six dimensions of morality
- Care
- Equality
- Loyalty
- Authority
- Purity
- Proportionality
- (Moral Foundations Theory | moralfoundations.org)
- Kids tend to figure out morality on their own (rationally, neither nature nor nurture)
- Human tends to create supernatural beings to help control the group
- Moral conventions have a strong rooting in cultural conventions
- We search for a rational reason to validate our moral feelings, after we have decided it is immoral
- Our reasoning is driven by pattern matching: when something matches a pattern of disgust, we reject it
- We use moral reason to come up with the best possible reason for someone else to join us
- The Rider is useful for justifying what the elephant (intuition) just did and wants to do next
- To change minds, you needs to trigger new intuition rather than challenge reasons
- Intuitions comes first, reasoning come second
- Affects (“afacts” not “affects”) are micro-emotional flashes that determine our intuitions
- Disgusting smells or washing hands triggers our morals
- Infants have an intuition about morals, for example, people being nice to other people
- The elephant can listen to reason from other people, but struggle to listen to their own rider
- Putting reputation on the line encourages ethical behavior
- Accountability increases exploratory thought when they know in advance they will have to present to an audience, when that audience’s views are unknown, and they believe the audience is well informed on the subject matter
- Self-esteem is really personal assessments of the perceptions of others
- When not being monitored, most people will cheat a little
- We ask “Can I believe it?” when we want to (low burden of proof) and “Must I believe it?” when we do not (high burden of proof)
- (This is why Occam’s razor fails in reality; “simplicity” is the in words of the explainer)
- We tend to be generous with people at first, but stop when it is not repaid
- Competition increases tribal attitudes
- Authority requires all to support all legitimate hierarchy
- Feeling of disgust can be warnings that we are pushing too far
- Disgust is a luxury
- Everyone cares but conservatives also value loyalty and authority
- Is the basis of society family or community?
- The Alpha is more of a bully than a caretaker
- (They take as much from society as they can before society deals with them)
- Gossip is used to communicate displeasure through the community
- We are 90% chimp and 10% bee; We do a lot of self-serving socializing but sometimes we click into hive mode
- “Muscular bonding” is using physical effort to suspend the individual to contribute to the hive
- We are conditional hive creatures… we mirror those who we confirm to our morals and ignore those who do not
- Foster cooperation
- Ramp up similarities, down play differences
- Called “Smoothing,” it’s not the best way to overcome conflicts/differences
- Synchronized motion
- Competition among groups, not individuals
- Understand Derkine
- Religion is a team sport
- God, trust, and trade
- Religion is an accomplice to atrocities but rarely the progenitor
- Genetics explains a quarter to a third of chance of political alignment
- High dopamine tends to bring openness for new experiences and liberism
- High serotonin tends to bring desire for stability and conservatism
- The brain is a story processor not a logic processor
- Increasingly levels of trust bring an increase in social openness
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