If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical - that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental.

Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.