Dear Rodney Daut,

Thank you for your letter. The exchanges on the Kierkegaard
list worked on me like an addiction, and since I no longer
receive messages from the list, I suffer withdrawal symptoms
which you letter helped, in large part, to assuage.
From what you wrote, I infer that the entire list collapsed
and that it was not merely myself who was expelled for
intellectual unruliness. I tell myself that it is psychological
and sociological curiosity on my part makes me interested in
any information on the list's demise that you might have.

About 20 years ago, I had a patient, named Robert Feild, an
ex-Harvard art-historian who was exiled to Louisiana for
leftist leanings in the McCarthy years, who became a friend
of mine and spoke glowingly of Teilhard de Chardin. At the
time I never followed up on his suggestions, but now I will,
thanks to your reminder.

I thank you also for bringing the philosophical implications
of quantum theory once more to my attention. I was once an
aspiring physicist, but was distracted to philosophy and
literature, and insufficiently talented ever to pursue my 
interests in that obscure science. Every decade or so, I 
begin again, assuming it is never to late, to refamiliarize
myself with quantum theory; so that I have a very clear notion
of what the issues are, even though I cannot interpret or
derive the difficult mathematical equations.

As of now, I suspect that our respective interpretations
of the philosophical significance of quantum theory are
somewhat at odds; in as much as you, if I understand correctly,
expect that sooner or later, quantum mechanics will bridge
the chasm between consciousness and the physical world;
whereas I believe that quantum mechanics in fact only
illuminates that chasm as with the bright beam of a searchlight.

However, I am open-minded; and prepared to be convinced
of the contrary. In any event, the mathematics, the physics
and the epistemology of the question are so rich that the studty
will be valuable in itself, independent of any clocnlusions
to which it might lead; and I am very grateful to you for having
brought it to my attention.

Ernst Meyer
review@netcom.com