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

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.

The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

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