选择
People are mostly shaped by their genes and their environment, but within those constraints, they have some freedom to choose their own path.
The happiest people are those who have discovered that happiness is a choice and not a result of circumstances.
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is the absence of viable choices.
Natural selection is the only known natural process that can build functional complexity.
The mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
The brain is a naturally selected information processor.
The way to learn about the mind is to reverse-engineer it: to figure out what natural selection designed it to accomplish.
The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life.