One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.
Robert Charles Wilson
Consciousness, according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The self was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.
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Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.
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