Your Conscious Life Is An Elaborate After-the-fact

There Is No Real Independent Self, Aloof From Other Human Beings, Inspecting The World, Inspecting Other People. You Are, In Fact, Connected Not Just Via Facebook And Internet, You're Actually Quite Literally Connected By Your Neurons.

People Think Of Art And Science As Being Fundamentally Opposed To Each Other, Because Art Is About Celebrating Individual Human Creativity, And Science Is About Discovering General Principles, Not About Individual People. But In Fact, The Two Have A Lot In Common, And The Creative Spirit Is Similar In Both.

You Cant Just Take An Image And Randomly Distort It And Call It Art - Although Many People In La Jolla Where I Come From Do Precisely That.

Curiosity Illuminates The Correct Path To Anything In Life. If You're Not Curious, That's When Your Brain Is Starting To Die.

Great Art Allows You To Transcend Your Mortal Frame And To Reach For The Stars. I Think Great Science Does The Same Thing.