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This is an excerpt from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's audiobook, Whole Brain Living, The Anatomy

of Choice, and The Four Characters that Drive Our Life.

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Chapter 11 Disconnection and Reconnection Our four characters in addiction and recovery.

As I discussed in the earliest chapters, at the level of the single-celled organism, the

meaning of life appears to be the ability to stimulate and be stimulated by that which

is outside of oneself.

The semi-permeable membrane of the single-cell allows some things to enter into the organism

while blocking other things from entry.

In addition, that membrane is stippled with specific types of receptors that will attract

the cell toward some things in the external world or repel the cell and push it off

onto a different trajectory, like two repelling magnets.

When the consciousness of the universe conceived single-cell microbes, it not only attained

a higher level of order in the form of life, but it also manufactured a way in which it

could keep itself stimulated and probably entertained.

The semi-permeable membrane, the universe manifested a way in which a portion of itself

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