Sublime

given a long list of things you might share with someone – beliefs, attitudes, hobbies, interests – and asked which they shared with specific people in their social circles (a named family member and a friend of each sex in each layer of the social network), and, as a measure of altruism, how likely they were to lend this person a sum of money or d

So-called lower creatures enjoy freedom from psychological fear. When a cheetah attacks a gazelle, it panics and fights for its life. But if no predator is present, the gazelle leads an untroubled life, so far as we know. We humans, however, suffer terribly in our inner world, and this suffering gets translated into physical problems. The stakes ar

Dr. Mark Epstein.