We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.

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

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

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.