“Beyond serving professional interests well, the combination of the Delphic “Know thyself” and the Socratic “I only know that I know nothing” has convinced many that the world is not totally disenchanted and compelled them to join the chorus. Ultimately, and beyond the narrower issues we deal with here, the ideology that tells us that we are essentially our brains claims to provide answers to a number of perennial questions about human nature and human destiny. We may object to those answers but don’t need normatively to decide whether they are right or wrong, for the main thing about them is that, as William James said of God in the conclusion to The Varieties of Religious Experience, they are real since they produce real effects.”