āIt is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.ā
āThe mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.ā
ā Ralph Waldo Emerson