Last Straw

The sci­ence of mor­al­ity forges ahead:

Some­thing rad­ic­ally new is in the air: new ways of under­stand­ing phys­ical sys­tems, new ways of think­ing about think­ing that call into ques­tion many of our basic assump­tions. A real­istic bio­logy of the mind, advances in evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy, phys­ics, inform­a­tion tech­no­logy, genet­ics, neuro­bi­o­logy, psy­cho­logy, engin­eer­ing, the chem­istry of mater­i­als: all are ques­tions of crit­ical import­ance with respect to what it means to be human. For the first time, we have the tools and the will to under­take the sci­entific study of human nature.