behind his back. There is a story that, fairly recently, maybe 50 years ago, when a cinematic film was shown to some villagers in India, who had never experienced such a thing before, they were asked immediately afterwards what they they could recall of the simple story it told. After some hesitation, one of the villagers said there was a chicken. And, indeed, later inspectiin of the film confirmed the fleeting presence of a chicken in a corner of the screen. But that was all they could say. It is therefore not unimaginable that some highly intelligent extra-terrestrial species might exist, having super-powers that we have not, but having nothing like our pictorial representation of facts or events. We might be to them like Montaigne's cat was to him. I note that you are trying to plug your seemingly as yet unpublished work in several places. Maybe you are in the same position as George Eliot's Edward Casaubon . You state: It is invidious to explain a complex theory in a few paragraphs; The Principia Humanitas runs to 1200 pages That is nonsense. Even the most lengthy tomes can be reduced to one of two good ideas that can be stated on a single sheet of paper. Einstein's first paper on special relativity ran to few pages and the nub of it can be written on the back of an envelope. Admittedly, he and others required much greater space to elaborate all the consequences of the theory. My point is