Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

by Laurence Gonzales

many researchers now regard what we experience as mind and consciousness as a side effect (albeit a useful one in evolutionary terms) of the brain’s synaptic functioning.

Thinking is a bodily function,

All the while they were moving toward a goal: the Big Climb, where the plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.

Nature doesn’t adjust to our level of skill.

in Chaos, “Strange things happened near the boundaries.”