Consider this: the act of thinking has biochemical and physiological consequences. The most common examples of this are blushing and boners; you think of something and blood flow increases. Neurologically, consciousness is self-perpetuating. Thinking expands and alters synaptic connections, increasing electrical flow and all that.
So although Veritas is bringing it up from a religious standpoint, he asks an important question: where do thoughts come from? If your answer is electrical impulses in the brain, you are conceding an anomaly in the universe, that electric impulses are both the cause and effect of themselves, a notion that wouldn't sit right with any traditional scientist. Granted the mysteries of the human brain are on par with cosmological mysteries (that is to say, we know very little about either), but there seems to be a fascinating gap between our neural activity and behaviors that seems, at this point, dauntingly unexplainable.
These sorts of mysteries lead me to love science as well as explore other vessels of human understanding.
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