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The small-scale interactions that facilitate our lives amaze me as well, specifically the way we experience the interactions. I just completed my web paper on taste - it's awe-inspiring the amount of chemical reactions that transpire when you bite into a piece of bread! And yet, all that we experience is a particular taste, maybe tied to a particular memory. In this way, the chemical, physical reality of bread differs greatly from the experience of "bread." The brain creates a story from the myriad chemical interactions that take place, and this story constitutes our reality.