our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of 'seeing'.

Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.