We're all zombies.* *It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!

Up till now [the development of proto-consciousness], we can suppose, nervous systems solved the 'Now what do I do?' problem by a relatively simple balancing a…

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds…

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.