Without Ducking Responsibility, What's Wrong With Medicine

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

Think About What Artists, Novelists And Poets Have In Common: The Ability To Engage In Metaphorical Thinking, Linking Seemingly Unrelated Ideas, Such As, 'it Is The East, And Juliet Is The Sun.'

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.

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

Science Is Like A Love Affair With Nature; An Elusive, Tantalising Mistress. It Has All The Turbulence, Twists And Turns Of Romantic Love, But Thats Part Of The Game.