chemical conscience

[perkeyone]

in the 8th grade i had a chemistry/physical science teacher who told us (the class) about how every thing in the universe was related to chemistry . one of the students in my class, who was quite intelligent and seemingly upset by this, asked if her thoughts and feelings were only chemical reactions in her brain. it seemed to me that the teacher thought this was a silly question. he said of course they are. she asked if there was such a thing as freewill if all her thoughts and feelings were merely chemical reactions. i didnt think much of it (this event) for the past 4 years but the memory of it came back to me and i thought i would share it with you all and get your opinions.

i looked at this a bit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness