In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.

You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.