Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

This quick TED talk entry is courtesy of TED.com. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.

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