"Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular reli…"

"It is problematic to imagine yourself in the shoes of a criminal and conclude, “Well, I wouldn’t have done that”—beca…"

"It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what’s happening in …"

"But just like voices, thoughts are underpinned by physical stuff. We know this because alterations to the brain chang…"

"The brain is a complex system, but that doesn’t mean it’s incomprehensible. Our neural circuits were carved by natura…"

"Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it."

"Censorship of ideas was a familiar spectre in the last century, with state-approved news outlets ruling the press, ai…"

"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"

"Democracy is clearly most appropriate for countries which enjoy an economic surplus and least appropriate for countri…"

"Here, for the last time together, appeared a triumvirate of old men, relics of a golden age, who still towered like g…"