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“Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“In the beginning was simplicity.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
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