If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how do…

Diane Ackerman
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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?
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Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2011). The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds, p.27, Vintage
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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

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