I took this great-looking, wonderfully illustrated book out of the library, by Rita Carter, about one of my favorite things:
The human brain. It's so complex.
Its secret workings continue to vex
the scientists who attempt to chart
the function of each pulsing part.
Bit by bit, they seek to find
how mere cells can build a mind.
The human soul desires to know
how nerve firings make it go.
So close, and yet so far - we see
things never seen - but still they flee
our grasping quest to know at last
how consciousness - so bright and vast -
manages to boldly spring
from such a grey and bone-bound thing.
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