Inertia is defined as the resistance of an object to any change in its relative position. The true workings of nature were not of our dimension, were not knowable in the everyday sense. In a rude awakening, humanity realized that it was not, after all, privy to the cosmic mysteries. Einstein would disagree vehemently with that grotesque misinterpretation of his work. In fact, all physicists would.
All scientists work under the assumption that the world is knowable.
Not only was the accepted understanding of physics turned on its ear but the principle of relativity dealt a telling blow to the hubris of absolutist philosophy. Miller still doesn't get it. While it's true that rulers stretch and shrink and clocks speed up and slow down depending upon your rate of accelation or upon your location within a gravitional field, Einstein gives you precise mathematical equations for calculating space foreshortening and time dilation. It undermines them completely because his interpretation of Einstein's theories are irrelevant to any philosophical conclusion he can draw about the computer-human interface. Miller seems to be equating fast processors with objects traveling close to the speed of light.