We do not think that any programmer should be given this major burden of deciding who survives and who gets killed.

"Would you murder your own child?" while they were in the brain scanner. And at just the moment when they were trying to decide what they would do, he took pictures of their brains. And what he saw, the contest we described before, was global in the brain. It was like a world war. That gang of accountants, that part of the brain was busy calculating, calculating. "A whole village could die. A whole village could die."

basic human morality

basic primate morality.

a sense of right and wrong is mostly stuff that you get from your mom and your dad and from experience, that it's culturally learned for the most part. Josh is kind of a radical in this respect. He thinks it's biological. I mean, deeply biological. That somehow we inherit from the deep past a sense of right and wrong that's already in our brains from the get-go, before Mom and Dad.

Josh is, by the way, a philosopher and a neuroscientist, so this gives him special powers. He doesn't sort of sit back in a chair, smoke a pipe and think, "Now why do you have these differences?" He says, "No, I would like to look inside people's heads, because in our heads we may find clues as to where these feelings of revulsion or acceptance come from." In our brains.

a very dangerous future

This is not good. This is not good.

heart palpitations over there

a massive, massive effect on society.

concept of what a car is is going to change.

industries that are built around just cars

cars, like the taxi drivers and the truckers, are gonna lose their jobs.

a million truckers that will lose their jobs

in the next 10 years, 20 to 50 million jobs that will just vanish to automation

standards of growth, development, and maturation provide a frame of reference against which every pathologic process in early life must be viewed