Andrei Illarionov Quotes
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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?
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Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
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There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
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The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
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The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
