The Adage That Fact Is Stranger Than

The Minute You Succumb To Outside Pressure, You Cease To Be Creative.

Even Today No Computer Can Understand Language As Well As A Three-year-old Or See As Well As A Mouse.

We Are Not Angels, We Are Merely Sophisticated Apes. Yet We Feel Like Angels Trapped Inside The Bodies Of Beasts, Craving Transcendence And All The Time Trying To Spread Our Wings And Fly Off, And It's Really A Very Odd Predicament To Be In, If You Think About It.

What Do We Mean By "knowledge" Or "understanding"? And How Do Billions Of Neurons Achieve Them? These Are Complete Mysteries. Admittedly, Cognitive Neuroscientists Are Still Very Vague About The Exact Meaning Of Words Like "understand," "think," And Indeed The Word "meaning" Itself.

In The Fetus, Or A Really Young Child, All The Different Brain Areas Are Connected To Each Other, Diffusely. And As The Brain Develops, The Excess Connections Are Turned Off, So You Get Very Specialized Areas. So Most People Have Really Specialized Talents. What Happens In Creative People Is This Pooling Doesn't Take Place.