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Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.