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Yeah. It's like the voice of negative emotion. So conscience is an orienting function that tells you when you've deviated from the path.

Yeah. It's like the voice of negative emotion. So conscience is an orienting function that tells you when you've deviated from the path.

Okay. What path? Right. Well, okay. So imagine now you're pursuing a proximal goal. But in that pursuit, you betray a more distal goal. the voice of the more distal goal will appear to you as conscience. And the distal goal has a more distal goal because these things are nested all the way up. Because we have some relationship with what the future and other people and the infinite.

Okay. What path? Right. Well, okay. So imagine now you're pursuing a proximal goal. But in that pursuit, you betray a more distal goal. the voice of the more distal goal will appear to you as conscience. And the distal goal has a more distal goal because these things are nested all the way up. Because we have some relationship with what the future and other people and the infinite.

Okay. What path? Right. Well, okay. So imagine now you're pursuing a proximal goal. But in that pursuit, you betray a more distal goal. the voice of the more distal goal will appear to you as conscience. And the distal goal has a more distal goal because these things are nested all the way up. Because we have some relationship with what the future and other people and the infinite.

And so there is a voice of the infinite distal.

And so there is a voice of the infinite distal.

And so there is a voice of the infinite distal.

Right, which is also operating constantly. I mean, the operation of the God in Genesis at the beginning of time It's not the beginning, exactly the beginning of time. It is that, but it's not just that. It's all beginnings, right? Including the beginnings that start now. It's the same process that's operating. And it is the voice of that process that makes itself manifest as conscience.

Right, which is also operating constantly. I mean, the operation of the God in Genesis at the beginning of time It's not the beginning, exactly the beginning of time. It is that, but it's not just that. It's all beginnings, right? Including the beginnings that start now. It's the same process that's operating. And it is the voice of that process that makes itself manifest as conscience.

Right, which is also operating constantly. I mean, the operation of the God in Genesis at the beginning of time It's not the beginning, exactly the beginning of time. It is that, but it's not just that. It's all beginnings, right? Including the beginnings that start now. It's the same process that's operating. And it is the voice of that process that makes itself manifest as conscience.

I think that's literally and neurologically true as well as theologically true.

I think that's literally and neurologically true as well as theologically true.

I think that's literally and neurologically true as well as theologically true.

Well, you could imagine to imagine this, is that as our cortex evolved, we moved from immediate local gratification to... long-term future orientation.

Well, you could imagine to imagine this, is that as our cortex evolved, we moved from immediate local gratification to... long-term future orientation.

Well, you could imagine to imagine this, is that as our cortex evolved, we moved from immediate local gratification to... long-term future orientation.

Okay, so the cortex allows for that, and that's what maturation does.

Okay, so the cortex allows for that, and that's what maturation does.

Okay, so the cortex allows for that, and that's what maturation does.