Spiteful Mutants, Human Society, and Social Epistasis

Prof. Dutton talks briefly about the effect that the increasing number of mutants are having on human society, with a comparison to certain animal studies. The social epistasis model seems to explain what is happening quite well.
To me the most interesting part is the idea that, since mind is an epiphenomenon of the brain (and as we are all good materialists now, I know few people who would argue otherwise), then physical mutations which affect the function of the brain will also affect the function of the mind. And indeed, even if you think that the mind is somehow "non-local" (as Rupert Sheldrake says) it still must needs be housed in a physical shell that will greatly affect its function: a glass of brandy, or a lobotomy, demonstrates this easily enough. As a Jaynesian (and, interestingly enough, as a Buddhist) I don't actually believe that the mind is real, but that is NOT to say that the mind has no existence. Of course the mind exists, but it isn't what it thinks it is...