{"id":359,"date":"2011-12-27T16:38:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T16:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=359"},"modified":"2011-12-27T16:38:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T16:38:20","slug":"is-morality-chemical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/27\/is-morality-chemical\/","title":{"rendered":"Is morality chemical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can a molecule make us moral?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/27\/opinion\/zak-moral-molecule\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/27\/opinion\/zak-moral-molecule\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author seems very sure of himself, but without doing a bunch of reading I can&#8217;t tell if it is justified or not.  I think the article is worth a read and while I do believe we are the sum of our interacting parts, I don&#8217;t think anything is as simple as he makes out.  Just like genes are not destiny, I doubt one single brain chemical can possibly have total control over our actions.  High levels might predispose you toward (or against) certain behaviors, but I think there are way too many non-linear feedback mechanisms to allow for any sort of absolute prediction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a molecule make us moral? http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/27\/opinion\/zak-moral-molecule\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 The author seems very sure of himself, but without doing a bunch of reading I can&#8217;t tell if it is justified or not. I think the article is worth a read and while I do believe we are the sum of our interacting parts, I don&#8217;t think anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/27\/is-morality-chemical\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is morality chemical?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","category-science","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}