you might be surprised to discover that there is a perfectly reasonable physical candidate for a complex living network that existed from the very beginning -- and still exists today -- that would qualify as a highly evolved state of -lrb- seemingly -rrb- pure consciousness that we might have devolved from . i refer , of course , to bacteria and archaebacteria , which i will collectively call bacteria -- or microbes -- for convenience . microbes meet all the criteria for a non-rule-based
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what 's gon na happen is if your grandmother had a will , the government is gon na sell everything , not the items on the will . the money they make will be used to pay her bills and anything like that . the things on the will will go to the inheritor . '' '' my wife is her physical granddaughter , what uh , what do we do if she 's not on the
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but then as i placed the treats in his spidery snow-white fingers , he smiled a creaky , crackly , skinny - toothed smile . even his bulging eyes seemed to twinkle . '' see you ! '' i said , dancing down the steps . i had met the creepy man ! everyone in town could say they had gotten candy from him , but who else could say they had given him a
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