The idea of right and wrong is usually determined by the super mind. The notion of justice, it's really a supermine idea. We imagine that we would have these experiences without language. But if you actually look at primitive peoples, aboriginal peoples,. they don't talk about the self and the inner life at all - ese in the language that we do.
Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind―to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.
Michael Shermer speaks with computational neuroscientist, Ogi Ogas, about his unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos, and how leading cities and nation-states are developing “superminds,” and perhaps planting the seeds for even higher forms of consciousness.