December 8, 2022
Dear Nikola,

I'm glad you're feeling better. I forwarded to you a recommendation of Nathaniel from his preceptor in Prague which Nathaniel asked me to translate. I thought you might be interested.

Thank you for the AI story about the Nantucket plumbers. It broaches various issues about AI, about fiction and about natural intelligence which, this evening, seem far beyond me.

I've discovered, - to my embarrassment that it took me so long -, that many courses at MIT are accessible, without charge, on the Internet.  Yesterday and today I spent several hours listening, watching and thinking about https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-04-quantum-physics-i-spring-2016/pages/video-lectures/part-1/ which opens for me a new, useful an potentially productive perspective.  Perhaps it will help to disabuse me of the delusion that quantum mechanics especially,and modern physics in general are among the intricate and impregnable mythologies which dominate our society.

I hope and wish that you continue to be well.

EJM