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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorWiley Periodicals LLC, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-23T17:18:07Z
dc.date.available2022-03-23T17:18:07Z
dc.date.issued2022-03
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstractWe humans have extended culture amplifying our powers. Our genotypes are differentially expressed in phenotypes, increasing our preferring us over them, escalating our worst and best. Our groups are more ruthless than individuals. Our brain/minds are hyperimmense, neuroplastic in advancing our powers in collective technology. We fear reaching a tipping point, a point of no return, pending doom for humans and jeopardizing the planet forever. We humans are the best and the worst and … we have blundered into doubly compounded wickedness. We struggle to gain truth, and live with our biases, religious and secular. We are capable of the highest good, exemplified in individuals in their spiritual communities. We can also fall into enormous evil, made worse by our community allegiances. We are well into the greatest experiment ever, an Anthropocene Epoch in which the dangerous outcome cannot be undone, nor the experiment repeated.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, H., III (2022), We Humans Are the Worst and the Best and …. Zygon®, 57: 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12769
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/234562
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
dc.rights.licenseThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAnthropocene Epoch
dc.subjectartificial intelligence
dc.subjectcommunities
dc.subjectgreater evil
dc.subjectgreater good
dc.subjecthuman excellence
dc.subjecthyperimmense brain/minds
dc.subjectmassacres
dc.subjectnations
dc.subjectneuroplasticity
dc.subjectone earth
dc.subjectreligious
dc.subjectsecular
dc.subjecttruth
dc.subjectus versus them
dc.titleWe humans are the worst and the best and …
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