True, You Don't Have To Be Religious

Keep Darwinian Thinking Out Of Cosmology, Out Of Psychology, Out Of Human Culture, Out Of Ethics, Politics, And Religion!

The Best Thing About Saying Thank Goodness In Place Of Thank God This That Here Really Are Lots Of Ways Of Repaying Your Debt Of Goodness - By Setting To Create More Of It, For The Benefit Of Those To Come.

Homunculi Are Bogeymen Only If They Duplicate Entire The Talents They Are Rung In To Explain. If One Can Get A Team Or Committee Of Relatively Ignorant, Narrow-minded, Blind Homunculi To Produce The Intelligent Behaviour Of The Whole, This Is Progress.

The Task Of The Mind Is To Produce Future, As The Poet Paul Valery Once Put It. A Mind Is Fundamentally An Anticipator, An Expectation-generator. It Mines The Present For Clues, Which It Refines With The Help Of The Materials It Has Saved From The Past, Turning Them Into Anticipations Of The Future. And Then It Acts, Rationally, On The Basis Of Those Hard-won Anticipations.

An Inert Historical Fact Is Any Fact About A Perfectly Ordinary Arrangement Of Matter In The World At Some Point In The Past That Is No Longer Discernible, A Fact That Has Left No Footprints At All In The World Today.