PMMJ (cheetahmaster) wrote,
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Mother Teresa, Bill Gates or... Norman Borlaug?

Downright nifty read: "Today, a new field is using illusions to unmask a sixth sense, the moral sense. Moral intuitions are being drawn out of people in the lab, on Web sites and in brain scanners, and are being explained with tools from game theory, neuroscience and evolutionary biology."

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