{"id":744,"date":"2016-06-24T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=744"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:38:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:38:49","slug":"appendix-z66-consciousness-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX Z66: Consciousness & Cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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APPENDIX Z66:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Consciousness & Cosmos<\/div>\n
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-<\/div>\n
Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly\n <\/div>\n
False is a 2012 book by Thomas Nagel, Professor of <\/span>\n <\/div>\n
Philosophy at New Y<\/span>ork
\n University \u00a9 Oxford University\n <\/div>\n
Press Sept. 2012<\/div>\n
from Wikipedia<\/div>\n
Overview<\/div>\n
\u201cIn the book, Nagel argues that the materialist
\n version\n <\/div>\n
of evolutionary biology is unable to account for
\n the\n <\/div>\n
existence of mind and consciousness, and is therefor<\/span>e\n <\/div>\n
at best incomplete. He writes that mind is a basic
\n aspect\n <\/div>\n
of nature, and that any philosophy of natur<\/span>e that cannot\n <\/div>\n
account for it is fundamentally misguided. He argues
\n that\n <\/div>\n
the standard physico-chemical r<\/span>eductionist account of\n <\/div>\n
the emergence of life \u2013 that it emerged out of a
\n series\n <\/div>\n
of accidents, acted upon by the mechanism of
\n natural\n <\/div>\n
selection \u2014 \ue0c5ies in the face of common sense.<\/div>\n
Nagel\u2019<\/span>s position is that
\n principles of an entir<\/span>ely differ<\/span>ent\n <\/div>\n
kind may account for the emergence of life, and in\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
particular conscious life, and that those principles
\n may\n <\/div>\n
be teleological, rather than materialist or
\n mechanistic. He\n <\/div>\n
stresses that his argument is not a r<\/span>eligious one…\u201d\n <\/div>\n
from the author –<\/div>\n
As we know<\/span>, the guiding
\n principle\/dynamic\/force Quest\n <\/div>\n
for Potential<\/div>\n
\u221e<\/div>\n
is overarching, which would include its<\/div>\n
teleological dimension. From the get-go and thru
\n its\n <\/div>\n
end-goals, Q4P<\/div>\n
\u221e<\/div>\n
would foster and advance both the<\/div>\n
emergence of (mind and then) Consciousness, and
\n the\n <\/div>\n
ever<\/span>-increasing
\n nurturing\/expansion\/elevation ther<\/span>eof.\n <\/div>\n
*<\/div>\n
Wikipedia Online, http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mind_and_Cosmos <\/span>(accessed June <\/span>23, 2013)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u00a9 Oxford University Press Sept. 2012 from Wikipedia Overview \u201cIn the book, Nagel argues that the materialist version of evolutionary biology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}