Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.