What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

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

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

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.