Peter Watts Quotes

The Premise Of Ezequiel Morsella's PRISM Model7,8 Is That Consciousness Originally Evolved For The Delightfully Mundane Purpose Of Mediating Conflicting Motor Commands To The Skeletal Muscles. (I Have To Point Out That Exactly The Same Sort Of Conflict - The Impulse To Withdraw One's Hand From A Painful Stimulus, Versus The Knowledge That You'll Die If You Act On That Impulse - Was Exactly How The Bene Gesserit Assessed Whether Paul Atreides Qualified As "Human" During Their Gom Jabbar Test In Frank Herbert's Dune.)

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