In the beginning was man, and man wanted to know. And so man learned, and the Universe was thus deciphered, or plausible substitutes for the indecipherable presented. And when man mastered the physical he looked to his own soul and saw it could not be explained quite so easily. How did a vast collage of atoms and molecules develop a consciousness and intelligence? Here, now,was the challenge to rival all others, here was a chance to become God and to make others in man's own image. But how?
``The problem of understanding understanding is really part of the larger problem of the mind understanding itself.'' -- Frank Rose.