yes. this was the title of the talk. i think the question he was answering was - what are those morals?
i have been reading and writing about reciprocity and compassion for quite some time without knowing these particular experiments and accompanying videos existed. i thought they were rather charming aside from being instructive.
and for me,the idea that we can build an idea of morality from observations of nature is fascinating. no need for descent from the top of the mountaintop or from philosophy. human beings perform within the broad scope of the evolution of animal behaviour and in the context of the environment they inhabit.
instead of thinking only about competition, which is the mantra of the twentieth century, or of forced equality which was the theme of the nineteenth century, i think also about compassion and reciprocity.
this is important not just as it relates to nature. the resistance to thinking along these lines explains a good deal about the difference between the political parties when thinking about economics.
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