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"...then the mind is, no matter how remotely, the ultimate product of molecular interactions. But what a product! It is a product of unimaginable glory, which has built upon itself millennium by millennium to create a psychic structure that has in a sense, taken on a life of its own even while remaining subject to all of the processes that sustain its organic effects. It is in this sense that I claim for it the quality of being greater than the sum of its parts."

Sherwin Nuland

"Mind: n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with."

Ambrose Bierce