Review: Mind and Cosmos (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, September 24, 2012, 17:47 (4603 days ago)

Mind and Cosmos Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel, Oxford Press, 2012.-This is one weird book. An atheist philosopher claims that mind and consciousness cannot be explained by Neo-Darwinism. He proposes a natural teleological mechanism yet to be discovered. He admits that chosing a universal intelligence is a logical choice, but his atheism does not permit him to do that. To paraphrase: Hopefully a natural teleology can be found to be present in the order of things.