Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

the mind is a neural computer

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.