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Episode 46, Image of God, Cognitive Science and Free Will with Aku Visala

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Cognitive Capacity and the Ability to Be Altruistic

Human reason is not disconnected from the kind of sociality and cultural nature that we have as a species. So in that sense, if you want a kind of reasonable species bat, what you have to produce is a species who has very specific kind of so social capacity. Thisdriven by all sorts of evolutionary considerations. And an interesting research. We could talk a lot about that. O, sure, we'll put at aside, but here this would be an interesting twist in the story. I know sociality is something that comes first. And if you look at evolutionary history, you see complex sociality, n culture emergingand that's the starting point for then the development of more abstract

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