Piet Hut on Explanations
So for each insight there is at least some explanation possible, but the same explanation may then be given for radically different insights. There is nothing that cannot be explained, but there are wrong insights that can lead to explanations that are identical to the explanation for a correct but rather subtle insight.
I think that the reason there can (almost) always be an explanation is that if an idea makes sense in one person's mind, it is an idea that can make sense in a human mind. Therefore unless the mind in which it makes sense is so enormously different from other minds, it should be possible to convey that idea to other minds. The trick, of course, is to figure out what to say so that the right idea forms in the in of another.
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