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Morality, like many other complex things in the natural world, can look designed. The moralities that we see humans practicing today are largely designed, designed by humans. Morality did not originate in human design, however; it is not some original invention of ours but a creation of unguided natural evolution. However, by learning how to modify...
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... get an IRPD tournament started, the decision as to which strategies shall play in a tournament must fi rst be made. The program I wrote permitted the user to form the group either by setting each strategy's niceness and choosiness, or to choose a preset group by selecting a size equal to a perfect square (4, 9, 16, 25, etc.) The preset groups have an even distribution of qualities: with four members, the strategies are 1,1 1,0 0,1 0,0. ...
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Morality from an evolutionary perspective is a code of conduct that regulates behavior within a group in order to promote social cohesion and stability. Both religion and secularism are grounded in the same moral psychology. How should the distinction between secular and religious ethics be assessed? Religious morality is a latecomer to the natural history of morality, reinforcing much of morality with a worldview about unnatural powers that humans' brains are prone to projecting onto reality. However, the natural history of morality reveals that religious moral traditions do not originate moral rules but instead reinforce ancient moral intuitions. Secularism as a worldview works within an immanent frame, compared to the transcendent frame of religious worldviews. This distinction is helpful in understanding the relationship between religious violence and secular-ideological driven violence.
