[Mike Todd]

Hi Don,

No offence taken – and I hope none given. I’ll come back tomorrow or the day after, but just to clarify for now: I don’t remember saying that physics provides an exhaustive account of physical reality (which is a tautology, anyway); I think I said that “Physicalism is the view that reality may be exhaustively described by (the equations of) physics”.

Bach and maths…

You may enjoy this:

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/04/escher-bach-rachel-carson/

themarginalian.org

M.C. Escher on Loneliness, Creativity, and How Rachel Carson Inspired His Art, with a Side of Bach

“A person who is lucidly aware of the miracles that surround him, who has learned to bear up under the loneliness, has made quite a bit of progress on the road to wisdom.”