Well, that's exactly the point. I cribbed that line from a poem I wrote: Trying to find / the explanation of why we are conscious / in patterns in the brain

Well, that's exactly the point. I cribbed that line from a poem I wrote: Trying to find / the explanation of why we are conscious / in patterns in the brain / is like / trying to find / the last digit of pi / in the circuitry of a scientific calculator