If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.
C. S. LewisWell, sir, if things are real, theyโre there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
C. S. Lewis