...I might continue to believe that there is no god even if it were proved that there is. A religious friend of mine once remarked that the concept of god is useful, because you can berate god during the bad times. But it is clear to me that I don't need to believe there is a god in order to berate him.

We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.

It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who can do the most acts of random kindness.

The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild!

But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic, outside the frontal cortex's portfolio - Then it isn't the harder thing, it's the only thing you can do.

What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm.

We’ve evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.