The Evolution of Consciousness

"I think it could turn out that consciousness because of this element of mortality turns out to be maladaptive, right? Because people talk about the dinosaurs being unsuccessful after 350 million years on the planet," he says. "The conscious creatures that we are end up dying out in one of countless ways." 'It's why not only we kill each other over our imaginary friends in the sky, but it's also why we waste billions of dollars a year on homeopathy'