> I've often wondered what we could accomplish as a species if we could just overcome some of these hardwired / knee-jerk instincts. The instincts that you lik

> I've often wondered what we could accomplish as a species if we could just overcome some of these hardwired / knee-jerk instincts. The instincts that you like are also hardwired, and we'd also learn to overcome those. We could end up as the society in Brave New World.