You need to see these paintings, to experience them as physical entities, to be in their presence in order to get them. (The Hope of Therapy, by Paul Gordon, 2009, p. 71, italics added)
Strictly speaking, it’s not my home town any more. I feel a deep sense of loss at this fact, as if the axis of my memories is faintly, but audibly, creaking within me. It’s a physical sensation. (A Walk to Kobe, by Haruki Murakami, italics added)
Sitting by my father’s bedside, I felt sure that the esoteric philosophical position was alien —so mistaken as almost to be offensive. Here was a man I loved dearly, robbed of his identity because a small clot on his brain had potently wounded his consciousness. Of course consciousness is a physical thing ... (The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning, by Daniel Bor, 2012, introduction, italics in the original)
