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.


Pearl Baby (p. 211) - The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

Robert Charles Wilson Quotes

Consciousness, according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a...

Consciousness, according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a...

Consciousness, according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a...

Consciousness, according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a...