He was talking with his friend about reality

and consciousness

He saw huge white feathers on tiny feet

where his friend droned on about somatic

influence on thinking

and consciousness is one everywhere at once

he saw Indra's net

the quantum physics and particle uncertainty

he saw fear in eyes in the grocery store

the confidence of Melville and the literature of Damasio

he felt the floor of the woman with the green cockatoo

and the cool bench at the zoo of 'Spider Monkeys'.