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Albert Einstein said, "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
We are now in a position to solve Einstein’s puzzle. As I have said before, the laws of nature are not discovered in a form coming from Plato’s realm of pure ideals. The laws of nature are first conceived in the mind, and later they are empirically verified. That is, the laws of nature are "felt", they are what Kant calls a "synthetic."
First, a word about the synthetic for those of you unfamiliar with Kant. The synthetic represents the subject-object unity, the synthetic represents something held in composite. What holds the composite together is not the natural law given by an abstract mathematical equation. Even an abstract equation is found betraying itself as a synthetic, however; because what the space-time equation shows is the right-hand side combined with the left-hand side. What holds the composite, or equation, together is a middle-term that went unexplained by natural law. Therefore, the laws of nature by themselves cannot explain reality because there is always something more that Einstein could not quite put his finger on.
The indication is that our feelings source the middle-term, otherwise Einstein would have been unable to discover the natural laws he was so proud of. But the space-time equation leaves the felt middle term undeclared while the dry mathematics provides a life-less skeleton of determina tion. This stark reality is what Einstein called "incomprehensible," but this is the wrong terminology because what I have now described is in fact comprehensible because the middle-term can also be felt in poems and songs, and elsewhere in contemplation or prayer. Christians call the middle-term the Holy Spirit.
What I have now shown is that the presumed natural laws are only provisional; i.e., they operate over a restricted domain, and these laws leave our feelings unexplained. For example, the so-called law of natural selection only applies over a restricted domain, and it cannot explain our feelings. It is feeling that is a precondition for the feasibility of natural selection, otherwise life would not strive to survive and pass on offspring to the next generation; sorry dear Darwin but you can't claim everything.
Also, the feelings that we experience are not ours in isolation. The feelings rest beyond the space-time fabric, and are related to a boundary condition that is found fundamental. Therefore, we can purify of feelings, and bring ourselves closer to our source.
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