(Explosion noise of minds being blown)

Emergent properties: a bunch of atoms collectively figuring out that they are a bunch of atoms that can figure out that they are a bunch of atoms.

"Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
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- Carl Sagan
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(He said it first.)