The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny.

The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.