If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307763341