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Speak further on the relationship of false consciousness to consciousness. You alluded to that. I wonder if you could speak briefly on the qualifying word quasi when you corrected yourself from saying evolutionary processes in the brain to cause the evolutionary process is in the brain. There is a lovely book by Peter Godfrey smith, darwinian populations and Natural Selection. That is the title, where he introduces some elegant diagrams which let you see in addition to the pure cases of Natural Selection, the sort of parade cases of Natural Selection, there are lots of processes which are like Natural Selection in one or two or three features but are not classic cases. The development of the nervous system in the individual brain is very much a matter of generation, lots of extra neurons which compete and only some of them get to survive and populate the region and the rest are absorbed and lead to another generation. The very building of a brain is the clause i evolutionary process. O

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