…confirmed and is the way the universe is put together another chauvinism biting the dust. Now this is a set of what Annie Drean has called the great demotions, and there are people who find it very upsetting, who still long to be at the center.…

…Isn't this another of the conceits that only humans are conscious? I'm paraphrasing, but would I include that in the demotions? Annie Drean and I wrote a book called shadows of forgotten ancestors in which we tried systematically to look at each of these…