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.

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

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'.

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

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

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

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