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• Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects…
• Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need…
• The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like…
• Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over…
• Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve…
• The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They…
• In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in…
• Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

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