Without Fear

He calls man a time binder

That means that he's the animal peculiarly aware of the time sequence

He can predict

He studies what's happened in the past, and he says the chances of so and so of that happening again

So he predicts

Thoughts are very useful to be able to predict anxiety

For this increased survival of the uninvolved in prediction, by knowing that in the end you will succeed

they're all going to fall apart

By one way or another, it might happen tomorrow, it might happen 50 years from now

But it all comes apart in the end