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What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

Ernest Becker
Mean, Animal, Self
Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.