The Nueva School's Innovative Learning Conference

At the end of the day, we humans are just another primate, with our behaviors reflecting the fact that we are nothing more or less than our biology (in a social context, of course).  This talk reviews the biology underlying our behavior — from the most compassionate to the cruelest.  Crucially, that requires considering everything from events in the brain one second before the behavior to evolutionary forces a million years before.  When all these factors are considered, the notions of agency, responsibility, blame, praise and free will become very suspect.