A set of global values in keeping with human nature and dignity need to be identified and developed. - Nayef Al-Rodhan

The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.

There is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures.

There is a physical neurobiological substrate to all human knowledge, including thoughts, memories, perceptions and emotions. To this end, mental states and thought processes are physical.