But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.

We are not thinking machines.

What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

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

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 believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.