I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.