Mechanics of Thought

Words often play traitor when the mind is trying to quantify and capture in measurable terms the goings-on of the Universe. It really is fascinating to know how we are made up of elements, molecules and compounds, interacting with each other producing this phenomenon called 'thought'. What really makes me happy or sad or angry is a little bit of interaction of those neurotransmitters with the receptors further triggering a chain of events inside the cell itself leading to the final event of perception and processing of stimuli - tactile, gustatory, visual, auditory, and olfactory, and how different stimuli can lead to different responses in different individuals within a species or between species and genuses. And to give those stimuli different characters and sounds in over a thousand different forms used by more than a thousand times over a thousand people.... Words, can never be able to describe accurately this truly marvelous phenomenon. It is just as marvelous as those stars in those constellations some of which have ceased to exist....