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

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

If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think forward from their skills, it's very easy to form collaborations because everyone is incentivized to work together.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

Work backward from your goal.

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?