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David Sloan Wilson - Conscious Evolution

Mind & Life

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Evolutionary Biology

i am trained as an evolutionary biologist. Ive spent much of my career studying non human species, insects, birds, fish and zo plankan. But isn't it curious that if you take, for example, a the spiritual domain that i think is represented so well by a mind in life, then let's take economics, which seems like baon of any of that. It's purely a secular top a, seemingly dedicated to self interest. And yet, at the same time, economic systems, of course, need to work at a large scale. The idea of a corporation basically treats a group as an individual. So they're both driving towards the same thing.

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