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  1. Peter Watts _ Echopraxia

    The premise of Ezequiel Morsella's PRISM model7,8 is that consciousness originally evolved for the delightfully mundane purpose of mediating conflicting motor commands to the skeletal muscles. {I have to point out that exactly the same sort of conflict-the impulse to withdraw one's hand from a painful stimulus, versus the knowledge that you'll die if you act on that impulse-was exactly how the Bene Gesserit assessed whether Paul Atreides qualified as "Human" during their gom jabbar test in Frank Herbert's Dune.}
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