Subject: Re: your callback
To: Nikola Chubrich <nchubrich@gmail.com>
From: Ernst Meyer <ernstmeyer@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:13:34 -0500

Dear Nikola,

The implicit assertion in my recent letter, that the intuition of time
of which I am persuaded, 
Time as a stream without beginning, without end and without punctuation, 
should be deemed valid also for everyone else, was in error, 
that same all too human error which persuades each one of us 
that his experience, his intuition 
should be a universal standard by which all thought must
be calibrated.
The mathematical physicists' persuasion, if I understand it correctly,
that space-time should be deemed a continuum, which is distorted by the
force of gravity, is a formula which I believe I understand, but which, 
nonetheless, does not correspond with my experience. Permit me a contravening
consideration: that on a mind molded and controlled by mathematics, symbolic
constructs, i.e. mathematical formulas have such power and control over
experience that they replace, blot out, warp or distort the intuition,
in this case of space and time, which is native and night otherwise be
inescapable.

Thank you again for your proposed mathematical analysis of skeletal 
pain. I am ignorant and very eager to learn. At this juncture I'm about
to resume writing my letter to you, which should be in your e-mail box 
later today or tomorrow.

My immediate thought: Pain is the ultimate intuitive experience. In the 
same manner, and to the same degree that mathematical special relativity 
can reveal the mysteries of the intuitions of time and space, it might 
also shed light on the secrets of pain. By the same token, a 
mathematical investigation of pain might shed light on the nature, 
meaning and function of mathematics including special relativity.

EJM