There Are No Good Reasons To Believe

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.

People Ache To Believe That We Human Beings Are Vastly Different From All Other Species - And They Are Right! We Are Different. We Are The Only Species That Has An Extra Medium Of Design Preservation And Design Communication: Culture.

A Child Raised On A Desert Island, Alone, Without Social Interaction, Without Language, And Thus Lacking Empathy, Is Still A Sentient Being.

Religion Is Defined As Social Systems Whose Participants Avow A Supernatural Agent Or Agents Whose Approval Is To Be Sought.

Ai Makes Philosophy Honest