If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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  1. ...as far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it...

  2. For all bodies are in perpetual flux like rivers, and parts are passing in and out of them continually.

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