When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.