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We’re much more complicated than we understand, which means that the way that we behave contains way more information than we know. And part of the dream that surrounds our articulated knowledge has been extracted as a consequence of us watching each other behave and telling stories about it for thousands and thousands and thousands of years, and trying to represent them, partly through imitation, but also through drama and mythology and literature and art and all of that, to represent what we’re like so that we can understand what we’re like. And that process of understanding is what I see unfolding, at least in part, in the biblical stories. And it’s halting and partial and awkward and contradictory and all of that, which is one of the things that makes the book so complex. But I see in it the struggle of humanity to rise above its animal forbearance and to become conscious of what it means to be human. And that’s a very difficult thing because we don’t know who we are, what we are, where we came from, or any of those things.