Nadya: Is fossilization caused by excessive information?

Gus: Well, too much knowledge can be stifling if it isn't integrated well.

Tim: In some ways information is like food: we need time to digest it.

Bill: Perhaps that's how many old people feel: there is already so much information in their skulls that they feel surfeit. Little additional information can be assimilated.

Nadya: Ah, the entanglements of minutia! Can we ever escape it?

Liao: transcendence is possible. However, I cannot explain how . . .