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Comment author: [deleted] 03 August 2011 01:48:48AM 4 points [-]

It's because what EY meant by the psychological unity of humankind was more along the lines of,

... everyone has a prefrontal cortex, everyone has a cerebellum, everyone has an amygdala, everyone has neurons that run at O(20Hz), everyone plans using abstractions.

We might disagree about the last one, but the first four are pretty much fixed.