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We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism— something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Game theory applied to evaluate our capacity to reason
also tells us Our fascination with games is evidence not of our ability
to reason, as one might guess, but of our lack of a greater
reasoning capacity. The higher a species falls on the scale of
reason, the less playful its members can be expected to be.

It doesn't appear that we are merely inventing ideas that
j ust happen to describe sensible objects ; it seems, rather, that
the mathematical imagination is an extra sense with which
we can perceive the natural world. And it is an extremely
efficacious sense, because it often perceives reality long before
our scientific senses do.

It doesn't appear that we are merely inventing ideas that
j ust happen to describe sensible objects ; it seems, rather, that
the mathematical imagination is an extra sense with which
we can perceive the natural world. And it is an extremely
efficacious sense, because it often perceives reality long before
our scientific senses do.