Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind.

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

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

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.

Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

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