The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.