Aubrey Marcus

You'll see it graffitied on walls or plastered on church billboards.

And there's something very powerful about that idea of God as universal love.

It's not something that you need, you know, to carve out your piece of the pie, that any piece of the pie, one cherry from the pie contains the infinity of it all.

You mentioned yesterday that there's four levels of compassion.

I'd love for you to share those with us.

On the biological level, you're talking about them running an experiment, questionable morality about that experiment because they're torturing humans.

But it occurs to me that probably the scientists were not experiencing from a mirror neuronal capacity the suffering of the monkey because they had sufficiently separated themselves from the monkey.

They've made themselves other monkeys.

And I think the function of biological compassion can be broken the moment that we other somebody else, because it doesn't have to be another species.

It's easy to do that with another species.

The lion doesn't feel the compassion for the gazelle, but it may feel that for another, for its cub or something else that's in danger.

There's many cases of a species looking out for its own species, but not giving a fuck about another species.

You know, sea otters.

I won't go into the atrocities that sea otters commit to baby seals.

Horrible.

You know, serial rape, necrophilia.

It's dark.

Right.

So there's a biological function that's kind of ethnocentric or species centric.

Yes.