Monday, June 27

            “If evolution is to work smoothly, consciousness in some shape must have been present at the very origin of things.  Accordingly we find that the more clear-sighted evolutionary philosophers are beginning to posit it there.  Each atom of the nebula, they suppose, must have had an aboriginal atom of consciousness linked with it…the mental atoms…have fused into those larger consciousnesses which we know in ourselves and suppose to exist in our fellow animals.”

                                 William James, The Principles of Psychology, 1890