There Is A Looming Chasm Between What

If You Are A Carrier Of A Particular Set Of Genes, Your Probability Of Committing A Violent Crime Goes Up By Eight Hundred And Eighty-two Percent.

People Wouldn't Even Go Into Science Unless There Was Something Much Bigger To Be Discovered, Something That Is Transcendent.

As Walt Whitman Correctly Surmised, We Are Large And We Harbor Multitudes Within Us. And Those Multitudes Are Locked In Chronic Battle. There Is An Ongoing Conversation Among The Different Factions In Your Brain, Each Competing To Control The Single Output Channel Of Your Behavior. As A Result, You Can Accomplish The Strange Feats Of Arguing With Yourself, Cursing At Yourself, And Cajoling Yourself To Do Something - Feats That Modern Computers Simply Do Not Do.

We Are Not Conscious Of Most Things Until We Ask Ourselves Questions About Them.

To A Space Alien Or A German Shepherd Dog, Two Humans Would Be Indistinguishable, Just As Attractive And Unattractive Space Aliens And German Shepherd Dogs Are Difficult For You To Tell Apart.