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.

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

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!

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up