Every human mind you've ever looked at ... is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions.

Of all the mind tools we acquire in the course of furnishing our brains from the stockpiles of culture, none are more important, of course, than words - first …

The first stable conclusion I reached : was that the only thing brains could do was to approximate the responsivity to meanings that we presuppose in our every…

It is commonly observed - but not commonly enough! - that old folks removed from their homes to hospital settings are put at a tremendous disadvantage, even th…