It turns out that "the last word" which I presumed to send you, was a deceptive promise, since every "last word" of mine turns out to be but a penultimate. The chain of babbling has no end. It appears that the late morning when I awaken from the dark dreams of night, is the only time I encounter "new" thoughts; and this morning's epiphanies are two: a) the assertion of Søren Kierkegaard that subjectivity is the truth, "subjektiviteten er sandheden", is the most sublime and edifying statement in which the "liar's paradox" has ever been formulated, - The liar's paradox is epitomized in the statement "This is not true." which is true only if it is false. The original, from ancient times, is attributed to Epimenides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox Kierkegaard was upset by the then fashionable enterprise of attempting to extol - or degrade - the sacred myths of religion by interpreting them to be objective history as opposed to subjective experience (Erleben). For my part, I have for many years relied on the conviction that objectivity should be understood and defined as the concurrence of the judgments of numerous and diverse individuals, as intellectual unanimity of the group, primarily in consequence of the reliance on verbal and/or mathematical symbols. Symbols derive their effectiveness, their meaning and force, from the circumstances that they preserve an identity which is created, communicated, and confirmed by the human mind. Goethe was not entirely correct when he wrote: "dass ein Wort nicht einfach gelte, dass sollte sich doch von selbst verstehen." (that a word does not have a single meaning should be self-evident.) But to me the contrary is self-evident: there is a perspective in which the word creates a single meaning by virtue of the identity of its name. The uniqueness of a word creates a unity of meaning which, to the extent that they "speak the same language", forces itself on all members of a given society. The foregoing analysis lends itself to transposition into the realm of mathematical physics, constituted as it seems to me, entirely of symbols which derive their meaning not from any set of events accessible to, and subject to the experience of any one individual, but in fact from the traditional meanings that the symbols have acquired through application and implementation by many scientists, in many locations, in the course of many years, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The fact that the meanings of scientific symbols have been established and maintained for decades, if not centuries, by generations of usage established their powerful, if limited validity. The illusion and the functional validity of scientific concepts is maintained by their being continually reexamined and revised. Thus paradoxically, like the organic survival and growth of vegetation, physics thrives by a process of discarding what is old and replacing it with what is new, with corrections and improvements. c) The solution is in engineering, in the application of mathematical physics to concrete specific situations.