Steven Pinker Quotes

[I]t Is Tempting To Look To Biology To Find Or Ratify Boundaries Such As "when Life Begins." But That Only Highlights The Clash Between Two Incommensurable Ways Of Conceiving Life And Mind. The Intuitive And Morally Useful Concept Of An Immaterial Spirit Simply Cannot Be Reconciled With The Scientific Concept Of Brain Activity Emerging Gradually In Ontogeny And Phylogeny. No Matter Where We Try To Draw The Line Between Life And Nonlife, Or Between Mind And Nonmind, Ambiguous Cases Pop Up To Challenge Our Moral Intuitions.

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