The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the "real meaning" of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Minds are simply what brains do.