[Don Salmon]

Glad to hear it was all taken in a friendly spirit:>))

About Escher – it’s quite amazing how much his life reflected a struggle for meaning so fundamental to the 20th century.

As far as physicalism, yes, I probably misremembered your comments. As far as the physicist view that physics provides an exhaustive account of the physical world, if “physical world” means the world we experience (it can’t mean anything else), then I think the simplest refutation of physicalism is simply to ask the physicalist, “If your view is true, then you don’t need to eat, you don’t need a house, clothes, money, etc. Use your exhaustive physics and see how far you will get in the physical world!”