[ Just as they discussed earlier, it's the same for both of them – only the scope and scale changes. Psychology and cognitive psience led him to much the same conclusion, on an individual level. Perhaps not life itself as a concept, but everyone's unique lives are amazing miracles.

There's a warmth in his chest that's difficult to pinpoint. ]

That's always been one of the beauties of research, to me. Sometimes you find more meaning in the questions and mysteries that arise than you do in any answers.

[ What he knows has filled many hundreds of thousands of words. What he doesn't know could fill a library. It's why he'll never stop learning. ]

But yes, I do see that. It is incredible, isn't it? Life is a stubbornly resilient thing.