"And this is why people's brains are like computers. And it's not because they are special but because they have to keep turning off for fractions of a second while the screen changes. And because there is something they can't see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they don't see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they're scared.
"Also, people think they're not computers because they have feelings and computers don't have feelings. But feelings are just having a picture on the screen in your head of what is going to happen tomorrow or next year, or what might have happened instead of what did happen, and if it is a happy picture they smile and if it is a sad picture they cry."
Mark Haddon, from the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
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