There are some very basic questions about the mind that nobody knows the
answer to yet. We know the brain is the source of mental life but we
don’t have any understanding at all about exactly how this happens,
about how a physical object, a lump of meat, can give rise to conscious
experience. We know that about half of the variants in personality,
about half the differences between people, are due to genetic factors
but we don’t know how to explain where the other half happens. It has to
be experienced but we have no real good theories of the sort of
experience that makes one person adventurous and another one timid, one
bitter and one satisfied. We know a lot about the social influences that
can drive people to do terrible things to one another but we don’t know
the answer to the maybe harder question of why some people are immune to
these influences, why some people do good things, perhaps even heroic
things, regardless of the circumstances that they find themselves in.
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李小梁Jadon Lee