If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, an…

C. S. Lewis
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If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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