Is the human race a universal constructor?

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.