the brain?

 The neuron is the biomolecular concretion of electrical conductance. Watching electrical arcs pass through gas and reach each in the middle the gas becomes a channel for these ions to propagate and discharge light, heat, spark. The visual substantiation of this in a slow-motion camera or on a Lichtenberg plate demonstrates the dendritic path of this spark at its full potential. Likewise, the formation of neuronal pathways in learning is a substantiation and biomolecular concretion of this spark such that the path the electricity takes becomes a pattern for conducting some unit of conductance upon which memory is formed. So then what is the brain but a vast cloud of these electrical paths a giant connectome of seemingly infinite sparks, each of which is contained in a biomolecular container. Interestingly enough, to consider the evolution of this neuron, as a spark container, and its close analogy to the propagation of an electrical arc itself demonstrates how the affordance of some fundamental feature of the universe becomes a crevice found, like so much water, by the biomolecule to harness and control this feature as a way of enhancing its real-time capacity for agency within our universe, within our earth, on this page, in the quiet moments of our lives. And so as this spark finds the path it will take along a gap, a substance begins to accrete along this gap, forming the channel that this path will take. In essence, the spark is the space of life, which isn't life until it is eventually occupied and routinized by the biomolecular substance that harnesses this spark gap. And it coopts the fundamental features of this spark gap as its own fundamental functionality.