No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.

Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.

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

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

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