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From: Lesley Groff < > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6:40 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Marc Hauser Original Message From: marc hauser [mailtc Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 2:19 PM To: Lesley Groff Subject: Re: Jeffrey Epstein ok, summer plans: i am working on a book about the nature of evil, and what the sciences have to say. title: Evilicious: how we evolved a taste for being bad (Viking/Penguin). we are testing a unique set of patients in south africa who have a genetic disorder that results in calcification of an area known as the amygdala. by the time they are adults, they have no amygdala, bilaterally. we have tested several of these patients on a series of moral dilemmas and they are completely rule based, ignoring the utilitarian outcomes. this paper is being written up for Nature we are testing a huge sample of children who have been frmi scanned and genotyped, and are clinically diagnosed as pre-psychopathic, looking for the genetic and neurobiological signatures of the disorder. we are testing an extremely remote amazonian indian tribe, the mundurucu (brazil), to explore the potential universality of several moral principles uncovered in more traditional western populations. we have two ongoing projects using immersive virtual reality to explore the nature of moral judgment and behavior, and with the hope of bringing this technology into the clinical arena, to test psychopaths, among others. we have developed a battery of tasks to test for canine IQ! the hope is that with the genome mapped, we can map genes to cognitive/affective capacities, and their breakdown; the latter is particularly interesting given that many human disorders (anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder) are seen in dogs and treated with the same drugs. and i am working on some conceptual pieces that align with work by stephen wolfram (of mathematica fame), exploring some computational primitives that may allow for the explosive generative capacities we see in different biological systems, but not others. -marc EFTA_R1_01999590 EFTA02683234 > -- > > Marc Hauser, > Harvard College Professor > Departments of Psychology and Human Evolutionary Biology Harvard > University > 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA, 02138 > office tel/fax > URL: www.mh.harvard.edu/- mnkylab > For Appointment: > 1. check my calendar at: http://www.me.com/calendar/ when asked for > login info: > login > password > 2. email me with possible days and times and I will confirm Marc Hauser, Harvard College Professor Departments of Psychology and Human Evolutionary Biology Harvard University 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA, 02138 office tel/fax URL: www.wjh.harvard.edutmnkylab For Appointment: 1. check my calendar at: http://www.me.com/calendar/ when asked for login info: logi passwor : 2. email me with possible days and times and I will confirm <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <1DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EM"'http://www.apple.com/DTDs/Propertylist-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1277231979</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8623750145</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>19</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> 2 EFTA_R1_01999591 EFTA02683235  <string>91032</string> </dict> </plist> 3 EFTA_R1_01999592 EFTA02683236