“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To formulate…”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com
“What we call the non-revelatory aspects of nature is simply what I call the bureaucracy of biology, which other people call evolution. Our brains are these valves where we only let a little bit through. I think that it's basically nature doing that. In other words it's the bureaucracy of biology tha…”— Paul Laffoley, amazon.com