tajima hall or build the city of singapore or write the tempest or the poetry or macbeth or the ramayana or discover the theory relative or invent antibiotics or computers? what other species, what other living organism has been able to create all of that? and of course, i can't come close to describing all of the things that make us human beings extraordinary. so let me just say a few words about our brains. of course the the most extraordinary phenomena the most extraordinary mental sensation that we have is just conscious fitness, the feeling of being separate from the rest of the world the feeling of having an and a self self-awareness, the ability to remember your past and plan for the future. all of that is part of conscious genius and. somehow or another that sensation we call consciousness. now remember, i'm a materialist, so i think that everything atoms and molecules, but somehow that sensation that we call consciousness is rooted in the material neurons of the brain. there are 100 billion neurons in the brain and each one is connected to another thousand or 10,000 neurons, an