19. Looking ahead, as robots learn to perform more human tasks, this presses us to better understand that which only humans can do. Discovering the limits of artificial intelligence will thus help further illuminate the meaning and value of human nature itself.
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18. We reject the idea that humans can be perfected through utopian social structures. Yet we affirm that the world can be improved, even if only incrementally, by improving the character and consciousness of individual humans.
17. As its ongoing colloquial usage demonstrates, we need to retain the idea of “human nature” as a comprehensive description of what it means to be both a human animal and a morally responsible person.
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16. Almost every human problem is, at least partially, a *problem of consciousness.* And this insight reveals how a solution to almost every problem in the world can be achieved by raising or evolving consciousness by evolving culture.
15. In short, we can and should work to evolve human nature by working to evolve human culture.
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14. Cultural growth is not simply linear or hierarchical, but cultures do grow in values. Such as when they expand the scope of those worthy of moral consideration—from ethnocentric forms of morality, to more world-centric conceptions of those who “count.”
13. We are not trying to change the values people hold dear. Rather than trying to convert or replace existing values, we work to widen the range of what people are able to value. Simply put, we don’t want to subtract or erase peoples’ values, we just want to add to them.
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12. According to our think tank’s developmental political philosophy, most humans can indeed be encouraged to evolve their consciousness by *expanding the scope of what they are able to value.* https://www.culturalevolution.org/100-word-summary/
11. Once we face the fact that human nature can and does evolve, this points to the exciting prospect of actively working to improve the human condition by encouraging and persuading humans to evolve their consciousness.
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10. The tension between evolutionary psychology and developmental psychology is resolved by defining human nature as both our biological consciousness, and the collectively-derived *cultural consciousness* we receive from our social environment.
