“Quantum mechanics makes predictions to such a fabulous degree of accuracy, it must be getting something right about nature. To creatures of our immense size, the material world looks blurred and feels hard. But now we know how strange and wonderful it is. So it shouldn’t surprise us that consciousness, your sort and mine, could arise from an arrangement of matter—it’s clearly odd to just the right degree. And we don’t have anything else to explain how matter can think and feel.” Then he added, “Except for beams of love from the eyes of God. But then, beams can be investigated.”
