ambush80
Senior Member
As we were driving, my 14 year old daughter asked "If everything is atoms, how do we have thoughts?". Knowing I had about 10 seconds of her attention, I thought to carefully construct an explanation. I came up with "The atoms in our brain are arranged a bit like grooves in a record". That was the start of a 30 minute conversation on matter, energy, the brain, consciousness, and the soul. I'm so exited that she seems intellectually curious.