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Albert Einstein, among other authorities, mentioned the considerable importance of the influence of everyone’s home town. And in fact I have noticed that my own home town has represented a point of reference, if not a model, to which I instinctively turned, in every field. Even more so when it came to architecture and town planning. Various other ideas gleaned in the meantime, and apparently far removed from those issues (such as music and physics), then entered the picture. Henri Poincaré, another magisterial authority, argued that the realm of the mind was absolutely distinct from the realm of nature. Yet it seems to me that everything is just the opposite, and that one of science’s tasks is to steadily dismantle the barriers apparently separating mind and matter, which rely on one another in the general process of evolution. Such are the elements that inevitably subtend and guide my thinking.