Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Baggage is just the lies you tell yourself about the way things are. Those lies clutter up and obscure a clear perception of the world and other people.

She called it baggage. "You're scared to open your suitcases and see what your mother packed.

The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make a living.