We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.

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

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.