altruism not just a conceptual, higher function

it looks like recent brain research is finding altruism is hard wired, and lights up the parts of the pleasure centers also activated by food and sex. The washington post summarized how surprising this is by writing, “Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic selfish urges but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable.”

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