ravven turns to search the new brain sciences to discover new ways that moral agency could be rethought without free will. she concludes that there are three factors that together determine action: nature (biology, etc.), nurture (biography, history, culture, language, etc.), and present situation (social belonging and its demands, incentives, and disincentives, and the like). so the most effective way of changing individual behavior is to intervene in social and cultural and familial systems at every scale. promoting and bolstering diversity and whistle blowing within all these systems is vital to combating the tendencies to groupthink that human nature makes us all too prone to. for we are social and contextual beings—our brains have evolved that way. nevertheless, as spinoza anticipated, an arduous path of the education of desire can lead to independence of mind from the tyranny of the immediate local world for those who undertake it. we can learn to be good even if we cannot freely choose to be good.