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“The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.”

Writing Levels Brain Conscious Species Autobiography

Author:David Brooks

“Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?”

Thinking Way Inspirational Motivational Understanding Animal Accepting Awareness Dog Conscious Cat Agree Species Obstacles Mice Dolphins Cat And Dog Newts Animal Intelligence

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.”

Choices Father Animal Survival Conscious Species

Author:Louise Leakey

“What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.”

Next Consciousness Conscious Species Markers

Author:Thomas Ligotti