Movement across the moral landscape can be analyzed on many levels—ranging from biochemistry to economics—but where human beings are concerned, change will necessarily depend upon states and capacities of the human brain. While I fully support the notion of “consilience” in science10—and, therefore, view the boundaries between scientific specialties as primarily a function of university architecture and limitations on how much any one person can learn in a lifetime—the primacy of neuroscience and the other sciences of mind on questions of human experience cannot be denied. Human experience shows every sign of being determined by, and realized in, states of the human brain.
道德景观里的曲线变化可在许多水平上分析 – 从生物化学到经济学 – 但涉及到人类，改变需要依赖人脑的状态和能力。尽管我在科学上完全支持 “一致性”的概念 – 看一下大学建筑学里各学科专业主要功能的之间的边界和一个人一生能学多少的边界 – 神经系统科学和其它有关人类经验的头脑科学的首要性是不可否认的。人类经验会展现出被人脑状态所决定和理解的每一个信号。