And what's come out of this is a new definition of human nature. It runs something like this. You know, it's not the genes. Well, I agree, it's not the genes. Genes are just a bunch of big molecules that entrain the chemical reactions that build up our bodies and our brains.
Human nature is directed by the genes.
And what it is, it's a set of regular ways in which our mind develops from infancy on, the hereditary way our mind develops, how we see color, which odors we can detect, how we develop bonding with other people, how we develop language. These are becoming precisely defined now and are subject to studies in Biology right down to the basis of brain action and then outward from there into fields like Psychology and Anthropology. The more we get into that intermediate area of how the mind develops and what its heredity basis is, where it comes from, the better we understand human nature. That's what consilience is all about. The more we become consilient, that is, connected with fundamental understanding, at the base level of human nature and organizations and societies and so on, the wiser our choices will be, and I think the more diverse, and creative will be individual activity.