The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.
From Steven Pinker
However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.
As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.
Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.
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