THE SELFISH MACHINE: Say, has anyone noticed that The Matrix is like the perfect metaphor for the Dawkinsite view of biology? You know: machines need humans to survive, don't give a whit about human culture and society but allow humans to go on thinking human culture and society is important, we humans can rise up and beat the machines in some nebulous way if we're properly informed (the last chapter of The Selfish Gene.) I think there's something to this, if only proving yet again that the borders between science, culture and religion are pretty badly drawn.