Mind from Matter

Abstract

. . . a man should simply and profoundly say that he cannot understand how consciousness comes into existence is perfectly natural. But that a man should glue his eye to a microscope and stare and stare and stare and still not be able to see how it happens is ridiculous, and it is particularly ridiculous when it is supposed to be serious. ... If the natural sciences had been developed in Socrates' day as they are now, all the sophists would have been scientists. One would have hung a microscope outside his shop in order to attract custom, and then would have had a sign painted saying: Learn and see through a giant microscope how a man thinks (and on reading the advertisement Socrates would have said: That is how men who do not think behave).

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