It’s stuff like this that makes me think that we often forget how amazing life really is, and how we take something for granted just because we constantly see it even though we don’t understand anything about it. How there’s this mechanism right before our eyes creating these amazingly and incomprehensibly complex structures, these organisms, that somehow end up with what we can only name “instincts” or “consciousness” because we lack better words.

We have no idea how any of this is happening and all we can do is cut it up and maybe look at the pieces through some sharpened glass, like a bunch of chimpanzees smashing apart a thousand dollar wrist watch.

The more you think about it, the more captivating, and maybe a little bit sad, it becomes.