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.

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

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

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

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