WHY WE ARE THE WAY WE ARE The miracle that is your experience of consciousness starts with the miracle that is your life. If your parents were at least biologically typical, your mother would have been born with well over a million eggs in her ovaries and would have released about four hundred of them during her fertile years. Once a month, as the moon above waxes and wanes, down below her hormones would have combined to release a particularly ripe one of these eggs. This leisurely egg, minuscule beyond belief yet.
