I think what made it click for me was thinking of explosions. Think of something like the detonation of ammonium nitrate. It is incredibly fast on a human tim

I think what made it click for me was thinking of explosions. Think of something like the detonation of ammonium nitrate. It is incredibly fast on a human timescale. It is just a chemical reaction. Chemistry can happen at insane speeds. Even the monstrous molecules of biology can interact at incomprehensible speeds. Think of all that needs to go on just to make a neuron fire, much less a million neurons forming a thought. It's amazing that our bodies manage to last as long as they do. That is an awful lot of stuff that has to go right or else we die.