The Brain Happens To Be

Theorems Often Tell Us Complex Truths About The Simple Things, But Only Rarely Tell Us Simple Truths About The Complex Ones. To Believe Otherwise Is Wishful Thinking Or "mathematics Envy."

If We Understood Something Just One Way, We Would Not Understand It At All.

Everything Is Similar If You're Willing To Look Far Out Of Focus.

An Ethicist Is Somebody Who Sees Something Wrong With Whatever You Have In Mind.

Good Theories Of The Mind Must Span At Least Three Different Scales Of Time: Slow, For The Billions Of Years In Which Our Brains Have Survivied; Fast, For The Fleeting Weeks And Months Of Childhood; And In Between, The Centuries Of Growth Of Our Ideas Through History.