In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory...

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.