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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.…
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Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over…
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In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in…
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Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution
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The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges,…
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In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way…
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If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to…
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture…
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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