Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything about whether the concept is true of anything in the world.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

Many mammals and birds have systems for strong self-control, and it is not difficult to see why such systems were advantageous and were selected for. Biding your time, deferring gratification, staying still, foregoing sex for safety, and so forth, is essential in getting food, in surviving, and in successful reproduction.

Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.

If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.