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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are We Just Like All the Other Animals Out There?

Human beings are just like every other animal out there with the same blueprint and the same hormones. We could use it to kill someone whose face we've never seen because they have different notions of what happens to you after you die than you do. I think that's where we have to be very conscious of when we're using stuff that's been around for 20 million years of primate evolution 70 million years of the male young 300 million of vertebrate evolution.

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