I've been listening to Leo Kottke's armadillo album this evening, absorbing the kaleidoscopic progressions and repetitions. Our brains somehow assimilate pieces of music that have complex weavings of instruments, beat, and melodies. They also integrate the many threads in our lives. Like with music, the mind does its best work if we flow with life experience, enjoy the many intricacies, and don't take it apart too much. Even if the brain doesn't at first get something, with time, it may develop pathways and connections, integrate new data, to deepen our understanding, if not on a concrete rational level, perhaps on a rich intuitive level.