He will never have time to figure it out. That's his curse. He is brilliant and we are lucky to have him, but his productivity in part stems from his energy being put entirely into the external, physical world -- which coincides with his repudiation of the possibility that there is anything more to reality than the world of matter. If asked to choose if we are bodies with a soul or souls with a body, he would say neither -- we are just bodies. Which means that he has applied his willingness to scrap convention to the external world but has not yet applied it to the internal and to admit that we in fact don't have the slightest clue about what exactly consciousness represents.

He doesn't understand anything going on inside because he can't see inside. He navigates by logic but would benefit from some intuition, to slowing down his processor and feeling his way rather than just brute force thinking it -- quantum computing it rather than supercomputing it. Unfortunately, this is what happens when you have an emotionally destructive childhood -- you shut your emotions down and it takes a really, really long time to get in touch with them again, and since intuition is a type of feeling, this suffers also.

Then again -- the man has tackled the world hard enough to set it to vibrating, so what do I know...

Thanks for the post. I'm walking away liking Musk more. And would like to read more of your stuff.