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Reply #13: These behaviorists might say, though, that the fact that the baby learns sharing so quickly
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BurtWorm
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Tue May-11-10 10:32 AM
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13. These behaviorists might say, though, that the fact that the baby learns sharing so quickly |
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indicates that it's wired to learn to share. I don't know. No one knows for sure. But it seems likely that what we call morality is inherited genetically as an area of the brain that has evolved--been naturally selected--over thousands of years (or millions, maybe) to make learning what we call morality easier. In the same way that birds are wired to fly south when the days become shorter, or that sea turtles are wired to find the sea immediately after birth.
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