“It’s mostly the mammalian lineage that has really complicated mind designs at all. [T]he amazing thing about natural selection is not how well it works, but that it works at all without a brain. This is a very counterintuitive idea that you can actually get complicated designs without there being any brain to design them. It doesn’t mean that doing it without a brain is actually better, that is false praise.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Becoming a Rationalist (Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot Podcast #088)