If you're at all interested in consciousness, I highly recommend this short essay: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-have-fun

Ideas are not born in a vacuum, and the parallels between neo-Darwinism and capitalism are striking. Recently a study showed that bumblebees seem to play. We now know that spiders dream. Dennett's surefire quote that lobsters are automatons has not aged well, and I think he will be forgotten by history, like everyone who had theories that were fundamentally wrong.

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