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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 the way you…
- The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs…
- Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it is…
- When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
- Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how…
- In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white…
- Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
- Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.
- Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
- I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress…
- Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or…
- I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that…
- We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for…
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