Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

Culture is another dimension.

Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.

If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.