I Personally Am Not Conscious

In Contrast [to Trees And Fish], Oil, Metals, And Coal Are Not Renewable; They Don't Reproduce, Sprout, Or Have Sex To Produce Baby Oil Droplets Or Coal Nuggets.

All Recognized Famous Inventors Had Capable Predecessors And Successors And Made Their Improvements At A Time When Society Was Capable Of Using Their Product.

Technology Has To Be Invented Or Adopted.

We Scientists Have Fantasies Of Being Uniquely Qualified To Make Great Discoveries. Alas, Reality Is Cruel: Most Of Us Are Replaceable. For The Vast Majority Of Scientific Contributions, If Scientist X Hadn't Achieved It That Year, Scientist Y Would Have Achieved The Same Result Or Something Very Similar Soon Thereafter.

It Invites A Search For Ultimate Causes: Why Were Europeans, Rather Than Africans Or Native Americans, The Ones To End Up With Guns, The Nastiest Germs, And Steel?