Eros: body or soul? part 2, Note 3

It is easy to see this in our senses, which can tell that something is wrong with a picture, a scene, or a situation long before our conscious minds understand it. And the sophisticated decision-making carried out routinely by organs like the liver boggles the mind. Lewis Thomas once wrote with horror about the possibility of making hepatic decisions consciously. He said that, rather than be told he was now in charge of his liver, he would prefer to be told he was now in full control of an airplane flying at 30,000 feet. He said that in the airplane, at least, he could hope to find a parachute and jump.