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When you purchase a computer a computer comes with certain programs that are hard written in.

They're often called operating systems and you can't do very much about them.

I mean you can upgrade them but your computer comes with it when you turn it on

you don't add anything to get the operating system.

It's already there.

And then you, depending upon how you live, what you do for a job, what your needs are,

you add a lot of programs onto the computer.

We could think of the operating system that comes

shipped with the computer as the core attributes and eight attributes that have been programmed into us over the course of natural selection.

These attributes, besides the physiological processes that we need to attain homeostasis.

There are core emotions which are found to a degree universally, cross cultures.

Basic emotions of grief or sadness, anger, fear, shock, disgust,

joy, and then there are also additional socializing emotions that are pretty

universal such as shame and pride. So those are what we find in our operating system.

They've been, over the course of natural selection,

there are dedicated circuits in our brains that create feelings of pride when we do things that benefit a community.

There are feelings of shame that come about when we do things that prioritize ourselves over the welfare of others.

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