I think Cyril has made, while I still believe Cyril to be quite wrong in other respects.
Time is needed.
Nevertheless, since we are among friends and comrades, I will venture my thoughts at this moment. Only in this context have philosophers got any business meddling with physics, chemistry, biology etc. There might then be a pay-off in the illumination of some problems faced by the natural scientists. When we irrigate the farms in Northern Victoria until they're all totally salinated and barren, . . . I don't think answering these questions would clarify anything while other questions are at issue and I do not intend to attempt answers.