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Every Mutation Through A New Combination Of Genetic Factors That Provides The Organism With A New Opportunity For Coming To Terms With The Conditions Of Its Environment Signifies No More And No Less Than That New Information About This Environment Has Got Into That Organic System. Adaptation Is Essentially A Cognitive Process.

The Distance At Which All Shooting Weapons Take Effect Screens The Killer Against The Stimulus Sensation Which Would Otherwise Activate His Killing Inhibitions. The Deep, Emotional Layers Of Our Personality Simply Do Not Register The Fact That The Crooking Of The Finger To Release A Shot Tears The Entrails Of Another Man.

We Had Better Dispense With The Personification Of Evil, Because It Leads, All Too Easily, To The Most Dangerous Kind Of War: Religious War.

All Living Beings Have Received Their Weapons Through The Same Process Of Evolution That Moulded Their Impulses And Inhibitions; For The Structural Plan Of The Body And The System Of Behaviour Of A Species Are Parts Of The Same Whole.... Wordsworth Is Right: There Is Only One Being In Possession Of Weapons Which Do Not Grow On His Body And Of Whose Working Plan, Therefore, The Instincts Of His Species Know Nothing And In The Usage Of Which He Has No Correspondingly Adequate Inhibition.

I Believe That Both Art And The Human Striving For Cognitive Comprehension Are Manifest Forms Of The Grand Game In Which Nothing More Is Stipulated Than The Game's Rules; Both Art And Actively Solicited Perceptions Are But Special Cases Of The Recurring Creative Act To Which We Owe Our Existence.