CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cognitive Load, Tribalism, Ethnocentrism
15 Apr 2016
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Lecture 15 the cogniive science of morality. We evolved morality to help us take care of the other people in our groups. But not so much people outside our groups. There is pressure to be strong, good ighter but there is only so much you can do as a lone human being. Self interest: i care about myself and my family: all animals have insincts for gene-preservaion. They are trying to keep their genes in the populaion. Basically when a bee sings you it kills itself. Historically bees do this to protect their hive. Friendship: i care for historical cooperaion partners: shared with chimps, sharing food used to be a life-and-death mater for us. Tribalism: i care about us, but not them: tragedy of the commons, evolved morals in human took care of this, anthropological survey shows that ethnocentrism is universal.
