Ravi Singla

“once the propagation mechanism was in place, it would have exerted selective pressure to make some outliers in the population more innovative. This is because innovations would only be valuable if they spread rapidly. In this respect, we could say mirror neurons served the same role in early hominin evolution as the Internet, Wikipedia, and blogging do today. Once the cascade was set in motion, there was no turning back from the path to humanity.”
― V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell: Tale Brain-Unlocking the Mystry of Human Nature

“In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“No engineer would have dreamed of such an inelegant solution, which goes to illustrate the opportunistic nature of evolution. (As Francis Crick once said, ‘God is a hacker, not an engineer.’)”
― V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell: Tale Brain-Unlocking the Mystry of Human Nature

“The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning