Sublime

The body is a protein-producing factory.

To plausibly argue that “humans” were intelligently designed, you’d have to lie about the design of the human retina, the architecture of the human brain, the proteins bound together by weak van der Waals forces instead of strong covalent bonds . . .

Grammer takes a perspective rooted in evolutionary theory. This means he tries to understand our modern-day traits and preferences by considering the pressures—such as the need to find a good mate or quickly detect a dangerous foe—that have shaped our ancestors over the millennia. Deception is a topic that interests ethologists like Grammer. Just

But what does accuracy mean for a rendering which no one intended and no one perceives? It means the degree of adaptation of the genes to their niche. We can infer the ‘intention’ of genes to render an environment that will replicate them, from Darwin’s theory of evolution.

The role of luck, therefore, appears decisive.

Ego, the self which he has believed himself to be, is nothing but a pattern of habits. —Alan Watts

Adams is the author of On the Genealogy of Color. He believes the topic of color is the most concrete way to consider the question of how much—or how little—our experience with reality is shared with the experience of other people.