And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!