While a number of people have pointed out the various costs and drawbacks of sentience, few if any have taken the next step and wondered out loud if the whole damn thing isn't more trouble than it's worth. Of course it is, people assume; otherwise natural selection would have weeded it out long ago. And they're probably right. I hope they are. "Blindsight" is a thought experiment, a game of "Just suppose" and "What if". Nothing more.On the other hand, the dodos and the Steller sea cows could have used exactly the same argument to prove their own superioirity, a thousand years ago: "if we're so unfit, why haven't we gone extinct?" Why? Because natural selection takes time, and luck plays a role. The biggest boys on the block at any given time aren't necessarily the fittest, or the most efficient, and the game isn't over. The game is never over; there's no finish line this side of heat death. And so, neither can there be any winners. There are only those who haven't yet lost.

You're it for me, Katie. You're my world now.

When your child comes home to talk about life, what could be more important?

You must be very secure in your masculinity to parade around in those budgie smugglers.___h, I__ very secure._ He see-sawed the towel over his back. __nd I__ happy to show you the rear view of my budgie smugglers__h wait__ou already saw it when you were checking out my ass.

Will you be able to touch me again without thinking about Sean? I don't want you to be disgusted by me.

We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world and contribute! Reaching for intimacy in all relationships? Delicious.