You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

I bet the human brain is a kludge