There’s nothing an entrepreneur likes more than the sound of the word free. - Stephen Baxter

To some extent the human race today seems to react as a single organism to great events. After all, we live in a wired world. Memes—information, ideas, fears, and hopes—spread around the media and online information channels literally at light speed.
It may be that this mass reaction is the greatest single danger facing us.

If you have kids you’re a slave to your genes. Just a conduit from past to future, from the primeval ocean to galactic empire.

Life seems to be emergent from the very fabric of the universe that contains us, hardwired into physical law. And so, I suppose, mind is emergent too.