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“ It is useful to remember that Darwinian evolution is just one kind of accumulative, refining cycle.” 

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“…it turns out that all the “magic” of cognition depends, just as life itself does, on cycles within cycles of recurrent, re-entrant, reflexive information-transformation processes from the biochemical scale within the neuron to the whole brain sleep cycle, waves of cerebral activity and recovery revealed by EEGs. ”

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“Millions of loops within loops within loops.”

 

 

“By the accumulation of imperceptible increments, the cyclical process creates something altogether new”

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Daniel Dennett, Cycles.