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Evolutionary Biology
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Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation.
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― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
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Too much tension is a disease; but so is too little. There are certain occasions when we ought to be tense, when an excess of tranquility (and especially of tranquility imposed from the outside, by a chemical) is entirely inappropriate.
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― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
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