A future lecture will deal with its broader implications. Ely Brandes will lead the discussion. Before the gap gets larger, Bill will expose how assumptions of Western civilization are crumbling before Singer's innocent questions. The insightful ideas Bill has spent a life time accumulating from biologists, economists, and philosophers are now presented in a simple and compelling manner by Singer, who is to ethics as Darwin is to biology. Don't be the last kid on the block to wrestle with Singer's provocative ideas.
Slime molds are even more puzzling.
As single cells these creatures ignore each other, but once starvation sets in they form a multicellular organism consisting of a stalk and a cap of spores. Clearly no intelligence is in charge. Bill Jacobsen speaks. And the loss of social capital can further damage our hope of ever achieving a truly civil society. Ely Brandes will continue the discourse begun three weeks ago.