Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart. - David Brin

Might human sapience be a fluke? Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr said — “Nothing demonstrates the improbability of high intelligence better than the fifty billion earthly species that failed to achieve it.

Piss on the world, or it’ll piss on you.

Life is the continuation of existence, yet no thing endures. We are all patterns, seeking to propagate. Patterns which bring other patterns into being, then vanish, as if we've never been.