We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself. Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.