He writes: "Knowing the universal aim is a bit like knowing an address to a house in an unfamiliar town—it might help a little in finding the directions, but you still need to actually find them or you risk getting lost." The way to get to the actual location in this 'unfamiliar town', that is, "the way to determine which actions to take that will be most likely to lead us toward our own well-being is ... by using the most reliable means of obtaining accurate information that are available to us (i.e., scientific inquiry, critical thinking, various methods of empirical observation, etc.)" Those, he argues, will "determine the best way to proceed."
I think he has something there. He is rooting a universal standard of some sort in our very biology, and he looks to scientific methods to give us guidance in applying what we inherently yearn for ...how to achieve the highest quality of life. {

I'd like to know what you think. Is he on the right track? Do most normal people have a built-in impulse toward altruism? Has the science of Brain Neurology discovered such an area of the brain?
If so, what are the implications of this?