Notes on “The Selfish Gene” Chapter Four: The Gene Machine
January 7, 2008
In which Dawkins discusses how early replicators acquired themselves “survival machines” to “protect” them from other replicators, and, eventually move them around using legs, wings, fins and similar. He also suggests the origins of imagination, and, possibly, consciousness.
p59: Imagination as a threat-prediction mechanism. This is an interesting, and plausible idea. Once early brains could map […]
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