It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
The methods of science aren't foolproof, but they are indefinitely perfectible. Just as important: there is a tradition of criticism that enforces improvement whenever and wherever flaws are discovered.
The distinction between responsible moral agents and beings with diminished or no responsibility is coherent, real, and important.
The trouble with the canons of scientific evidence […] is that they virtually rule out the description of anything but oft-repeated, oft-observed, stereotypic behavior of a species, and this is just the sort of behavior that reveals no particular intelligence at all