APPENDIX Z66: Consciousness & Cosmos
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APPENDIX Z66:
Consciousness & Cosmos
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-
Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly
False is a 2012 book by Thomas Nagel, Professor of
Philosophy at New York
University © Oxford University
University © Oxford University
Press Sept. 2012
from Wikipedia
Overview
“In the book, Nagel argues that the materialist
version
version
of evolutionary biology is unable to account for
the
the
existence of mind and consciousness, and is therefore
at best incomplete. He writes that mind is a basic
aspect
aspect
of nature, and that any philosophy of nature that cannot
account for it is fundamentally misguided. He argues
that
that
the standard physico-chemical reductionist account of
the emergence of life – that it emerged out of a
series
series
of accidents, acted upon by the mechanism of
natural
natural
selection — ies in the face of common sense.
Nagel’s position is that
principles of an entirely different
principles of an entirely different
kind may account for the emergence of life, and in
particular conscious life, and that those principles
may
may
be teleological, rather than materialist or
mechanistic. He
mechanistic. He
stresses that his argument is not a religious one…”
from the author –
As we know, the guiding
principle/dynamic/force Quest
principle/dynamic/force Quest
for Potential
∞
is overarching, which would include its
teleological dimension. From the get-go and thru
its
its
end-goals, Q4P
∞
would foster and advance both the
emergence of (mind and then) Consciousness, and
the
the
ever-increasing
nurturing/expansion/elevation thereof.
nurturing/expansion/elevation thereof.
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Wikipedia Online, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_and_Cosmos (accessed June 23, 2013)
