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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 a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.”

Quote by Robert Charles Wilson

Book:The Perseids and Other Stories

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The Perseids and Other Stories

This book compiles a selection of short stories that delve into a range of subjects and storytelling techniques. more

Author

Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson is a Canadian science fiction author born on December 15, 1953. His works are known for their profound philosophical insights and complex narrative structures, with notable titles including 'Blindness' and 'The Chronology of Time'. more

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Book:The Perseids and Other Stories

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“Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.”

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“I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.”

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“These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.”

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Book:Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

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“I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.”

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Author:Robert Charles Wilson