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Everybody Remembers Numbers And Computers Remember Numbers. People Remember Procedures And Computers Certainly Remember Procedures. But The Other Thing That's Still Important Is That Your Perception As A Human Is Affected Subtly By All This Stuff That You Can't Quite Articulate. You Run Your Life According To All This Stuff That's Happened To You. All Of Your Memories Affect Everything You Do Whereas With A Computer, There's Adaptive Software And Things, But It's More Literal.

I Say To The Grown-ups, 'if You Want To Deny Evolution And Live In Your World That's Completely Inconsistent With Everything We've Observed In The Universe That's Fine. But Don't Make Your Kids Do It.'

I Try To Speak Plainly And Be Sympathetic To The Idea Of Religions Where People Gather In Community. They Get A Sense Of People Looking Out For Each Other. My Claim Is That We Have A Tendency To Look Out For Each Other Whether Or Not There Is A Religion Involved.

We Are Special In The Sense That We Can Know Our Place In The Cosmos. We Can Know Our Place In Space. We Are At Least One Of The Cosmos's Ways Of Knowing Itself. That Fills Me With Reverence And Joy. Another Insight I Really Want People To Consider Is This: Everyone Has Gotten This Far. Everyone You Meet Has Made It This Far. Nobody Is Superior To Anyone Else From An Evolutionary Standpoint.

A Two-and-a-half-year-old Is Pretty Experienced At Making A Mess, Anyway.