“We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us – through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology – that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.”

Source: River out of Eden (1995), Ch. 5: The Replication Bomb

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