We are walking chemistry, as determined in our being and actions as an explosion, and yet we have this thing we call consciousness; we experience ourselves, and react to that experience, changing it. Calcium ions jump back and forth in my head, causing me to experience the idea of calcium ions jumping back in forth in my head, causing them to jump still more. And yet, stir up just a tiny pinch of brain cells, and consciousness goes away, though everything else remains the same. This big collaborative effort of millions of neurons, as much as we enjoy it, just seems incidental to our physical existence.
I wonder what else does this. Do stars think they're deciding to explode? Could there be some sense in which it's true?
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