Rachell Powell

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind · 26 Jan 2026 podcast

Yeah, I would figure.

I would figure.

but you know but but you know actually to that point it was really interesting because i you know when i teach uh a moral philosophy like when you get to khan it's bizarre it does like if the grounding is weird none of it like makes a lot of sense whereas hume is just like very i mean for us sciencey people it's really on point right whereas khan is bizarre but then like you sort of get to the the bottom of khan where sort of

at the basics where he's saying like, you know what, there are certain things that are right and wrong irrespective of what our desires or preferences are.

Hume ultimately rejects that.

but kind of in a more philosophical way.

I mean, what Kant, to me, is saying is just so important is that there are rights and wrongs that transcend our own self-interest and that it's just not sufficient to say, you know, I don't desire that, so it doesn't have any grip on me.

Once you're in the realm of reason-giving,

You're within the realm of morality, and you could be swayed.

I think that critical, though, for humans to be able to do that is that you create certain kinds of social conditions that don't replicate the...

the kinds of cues and triggers in the early ancestral environment that we respond to without group antagonism.

And that's a big process.

It means we have to create surpluses, that we have to educate, that there's so much going on.

And it's very easy to turn back the tide and regress rapidly when there's actual or perceptions of scarcity,

intergroup competition, predation of one group by another, and it doesn't matter whether they're real, because culturally, people can use that polemically to make people believe that, and bam, trigger these highly exclusivist, highly sort of out-group

I think that's right.

And I think that, but I mean, this is the scary part.

Okay.

The scary part is that even, and this is the part that kind of would keep me up at night.

Even if we knew

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