re: "You Are Not Who You Think You Are" (The New York Times, September 2, 2021)
And underlying it all, what we now call emotions, thinking, perceiving, deciding and other mental events, are the nerve cells that make up our brains interacting with fingers, stomachs and diseases we might have, underlying all of which is chemistry following the ineluctable laws of physics. And out of that comes the wonder that is us, whatever we are as ever imperfectly known, not least to ourselves, human persons.
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