Unlike optogenetics, where there are existing nonprofits that give away the DNA for free or at cost, expansion microscopy requires chemicals to be used, so having a company that makes the chemistry kit that anybody can use can save time.

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.

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.

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

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.