There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

We are not thinking machines.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.