The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of what problem these theories attempt to solve. They learn but little of the evolution of evolutionary theory.

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.