A Little Background
It is a familiar enough scene, not just to the creatures of the Serengeti, but nowadays to anyone born within the sound of David Attenborough. In the shimmering heat of the African plain a herd of antelope … Read the rest
Life and Consciousness – Chapter 2
The Knowledge of Good and Evil
Why do humans argue about what’s right and what’s wrong? Why don’t they just know? Birds do; bees do, and for all I know, even educated fleas do. They just know stuff. Birds will … Read the rest
Life and Consciousness – Chapter 3
The Hawking of Dawkins
By any criteria, especially Dawkins’s own concept of meme propagation, his theory of gene-centric evolution has been one of the most successful scientific theories of all time, dominating the field of genetics since he introduced it, … Read the rest