I Believe That The Brain Has Evolved

We Are Natural Mind Changing Entities Until We Are 10 Or So. But As We Get Older...then It Is Very Hard To Change Our Minds

Intelligence Is The Ability To Find And Solve Problems And Create Products Of Value In One's Own Culture.

An Intelligence Is The Biological And Psychological Potential To Analyze Information In Specific Ways, In Order To Solve Problems Or To Create Products That Are Valued In A Culture.

Any Profession Should Have Norms Around The Issue You Raise. And, In The Words Of The Great Economic Thinker Albert Hirschman, We All Owe A Measure Of Loyalty To Professional Norms. But When The Norms Seem Unhelpful Or Unproductive, One Needs To Speak Up - To Activate Voice. And In The Extreme, If The Profession And One's Colleagues Seem Estranged From A Thoughtfully Selected Course Of Action, You Need To Consider The Possibility Of Exit. Of Course, If You Knowingly Violate Norms Or Laws, You Need To Be Prepared To Face The Consequences - Or To Lead A Revolution!

A Good Person Is One Who Follows The Ten Commandments And The Golden Rule. There Is Plenty Of Precedent In History To Guide Us And We Probably Evolved To Be Sensitive To Bible-golden Rule Situations. But The Dilemmas Faced By A Worker - A Journalist, An Architect, An Auditor - Or By A Citizen (what Position To Take On Stem Cell Research, Whether To Run For Office, What Is The Proper Balance Between Taxation And Social Nets) - Are Not Questions That Can Be Answered By Traditional Texts Or Precedents.