Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

  • -- Steven Pinker 史蒂文·平克

为什么人们认为思维是大脑的产物,大脑部分由基因组组成,基因组是由自然选择形成的这种观点有危险的含义?

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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

这个灵魂,或我们内在的生命,绝不与我们外在的生命一致。如果有人有勇气问她是怎么想的,她总是和别人说的完全相反。

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it  agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

不要相信任何东西,无论你在哪里读到的,也无论谁说过,即使我说过,也不要相信,除非它符合你自己的理性和常识。

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

现在每个人都很有才华,所以我唯一愿意授予他们真正的荣誉的人是那些默默无闻的人。

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

他不相信不按照他的信仰生活。