Tag: Morality

Homo Moralis — The Moral Human Awakens

🔢 Three Domains of Moral Emergence — Through the Lens of Prime Numbers

In Hesus: The Movie, we treat morality not as a given, but as an evolving property — shaped through three converging forces:

  • Nature — the genetic and instinctual spark (emerging with Prime 3)
  • Nurture — the social shaping of conscience (emerging with Prime 7)
  • Environment — the adaptive field of moral practice (emerging with Prime 13)

We chose prime numbers to mark these stages because primes are indivisible truths — stable, irreducible, and foundational. Each marks a new layer of complexity and consciousness in the moral unfolding of humanity.

🔹 Nature — Prime 3: The Triad of Self, Other, and Action

At the emergence of Prime 3, morality first awakens. The world is no longer just survival — it becomes interaction:

  • I hurt
  • You hurt
  • I can choose not to hurt you

Here, we witness the first sparks of:

  • Empathy — felt in early mammals and primates
  • Kin loyalty — protect those like me
  • Reciprocal fairness — return what is given

This is morality as instinct — an emergent property of brains wired to survive together.

🔸 Nurture — Prime 7: The Expansion of Identity

With Prime 7, morality expands beyond instinct into social imprinting. At this stage, the individual becomes a node in a moral web:

  • Family teaches care and consequence
  • Tribe shapes loyalty and justice
  • Community frames shame and belonging

Now morality becomes story — taught through song, ritual, law, and myth. It is nurture that teaches the child where the edge of the self ends and the rights of others begin.

At Prime 7, morality becomes relational.

🔻 Environment — Prime 13: The Responsive Moral Ecosystem

At Prime 13, a higher complexity appears: morality becomes adaptive. The needs of the tribe shift; the world changes. What was once acceptable becomes unjust. What once was survival becomes exploitation.

This is where wisdom enters — not just what to do, but when and why.

The caravan in Hesus learns that environment shapes morality not just through scarcity or abundance, but through beauty, trauma, memory, and landscape.

At Prime 13, morality becomes situational, nuanced, and deeply human. It learns to listen.

As the World Turns everything changes and nothing is different

Often as I explore how our culture and our planet evolve; I am amazed at how we try to change everything with each succeeding generation.  We, and I remember when I was young, think that our thoughts are original and therefore believe that we were the first to dream it up.  Yet if we explore history we will find that the great and the unknown have probably already put forward the concept we believe to be so unique.  As an example think of the Helicopter, invented by Da Vinci, yet when he conceived it, he did not have the tools to make it work.

The difference is that as the tools become available we find that now we can build and create what we imagine is a new machines.  the reality, if we appreciate history, we find we now can  build those things that before were only in our or someone else imagination.

With those thoughts considered we find that we tend to circle back and adopt patterns that once were in vogue and then did not pass the test of time.  The best example is our explicate use of sexual overtones in advertising.  The idea that the spam we once  received for male enhancement products is no longer spam.  Today, these products are promoted on TV prime time. They are  simply examples of how we lost sight of the value of prudence and morality.  Do we want to learn about feminine products, or is that something our mothers will teach us or our doctors and health classes will education us about.  Do we need to know that your product is more absorbent than theirs or that you can go swimming if you buy this one?

Maybe in a generation or two we will once again realize that by exploiting the art of sex we create and stimulate thoughts that are not biblical and can in some cases harm people.  Then again, as so many great artists and photographers recognize, the naked body is a beautiful thing.  But, is the naked body art, when we use it to advertise cars, shampoo and who knows what else.

As a technologist I find that people think I have lost my edge given that I no longer understand the terminology they are using today.  Give me a thesaurus that matches words like a self contained subroutine to an object.  Then we can talk about methodologies.  Do these new words like “Cloud” improve productivity? I am sure some people believe they do.  More importantly do they assure the worlds population that they can get better jobs.  Do these new techniques assure the enterprise that we are doing a better job of documenting what we have built.  Does all of this assure the shareholders, stakeholders and customers they is getting what they asked for, are will to pay for and more important with cherish.

As an observer of our times I sometimes wonder if we are simply taken things to new extremes.  I wonder if our desire is simply to lure people into buying this or that.  For what?  Or are we simply selling products to earn a dollar, peso, euro, yen of pound.