Salon intervjuer forsker- og filosofparet Steven Pinker og Rebecca Goldstein om språk, ateisme og bevissthet, og får blant annet svar som dette:

[I]f you were to look at my brain right now, I would have to tell you what it is that I’m experiencing. You can’t simply get it out of the physical description. So where does that leave us? It might mean that we’re not our brain. It might mean that we have an incomplete description of the brain. Our science is not sufficient to explain how this extraordinary thing happens — that a lump of matter becomes an entire world. But the irreducibility doesn’t in itself show immaterialism.

Joda, The Blank Slate ligger i bør-leses-stabelen. Jeg må bare bli ferdig med The World Without Us først.