Quote of the Day | 0624
If consciousness, that strange bundle of reason, memory, language and the emotions, is not a product of evolution, then how did we acquire it? But if it is a product of evolution, the question is the same: how did we acquire it, and how did we then become conscious that we had acquired it? This is the sort of question that could worry you to death. This last evolutionary invention is another terminally perplexing topic. Death pays, so handsomely that some bacteria actually choose suicide. Death may seem a cruel cosmic joke, says Lane, but ageing is mirthless.
Tim Radford,‘Ten steps to life as we know it’
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