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Nu, or whoever you are
Self organizing neurons
Yes, and most of what you do not see is also real.
Unless you have been taking funny mushrooms
The categorization of what is socially acceptable behavior and what is socially unacceptable behavior.
A law in the balance of nature
Complex patterns that can reproduce the same patterns of itself

CD

Gurdur

Not necessarily so at all; ethics go just as well for individual behaviour - a hermit is also subject to ethics, if he/she wants to be.

Synaesthesia

Ender,
Although not the be-all and end-all of mind science books, Neurophilosophy is amongst the best of the dozens of books I have read on the subject. It gives the best account of inter-theoretic reduction I have ever seen, it demonstrates that the mind's form and function is not a smooth walled mystery as essentialist and dualist philosophers like to believe and examines the necessity of multidisciplinary mind-sciences.

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I do find the subject of ethics very confusing. Perhaps another way of defining it is the very simplistic notion of maximizing pleasure is "good" and the supression pleasure is "bad".
But many Puritanic religions of course totally confuse the issue by renouncing any idea of hedonism, and we must live like miserable martyrs to be rightious.

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