Crossing Topless: An Odyssey, Moore John Rixey

Veteran actor John Rixey Moore takes a trip across the country in an open air buggy. Saying that nature helps him realize that the universe is conscious, on his journey from one end of the country to the other, as philosophical as ever, he gives voice to thoughts along the way. How are thoughts generated; by what marvelous alchemy forged in the early chaos of the universe did it lead us to the unlikely fever we call consciousness? If a brain is just a few pounds of goo, blood and electricity, how does it manage to dream, to worry, contemplate itself, do time and motion studies, admire the shy paw of a cat, design ships, know that it will die, and enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart? How can a neuron feel compassion? What is self? Why and how do we have brains with the ability to consider, imagine and to think of the future? How do you begin with hydrogen and end up with buildings, neckties, jealousy, and chamber music?