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“Consciousness,” according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way … - Robert Charles Wilson
" "“Consciousness,” according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The “self” was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.
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About Robert Charles Wilson
Robert Charles Wilson (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian science fiction author.
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Later Julian would give me another book he had culled from among the Archival duplicates, a short novel called The Time Machine by Mr. H. G. Wells, about a marvelous but apparently imaginary cart which carried a man into the future—and it fascinated me—but the Archive itself was a Time Machine in everything but name. Here were voices preserved on browning paper like pressed flowers, whispering apostasies into the ear of a new century.
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