Do you believe that emergence of the mind is explained by evolution? I don't. I think that there is something very special about the universe/ nature that led to the emergence of the mind. Or is it vice versa? The following is startling in its conclusion. From various sources:
"In his book "Mind and Cosmos", Thomas Nagel (a very highly regarded philosopher of science) argues that the materialist version of evolutionary biology is unable to account for the existence of mind and consciousness, and is therefore at best incomplete. He writes that mind is a basic aspect of nature, and that any philosophy of nature that cannot account for it is fundamentally misguided. He argues that the standard physico-chemical reductionist account of the emergence of life – that it emerged out of a series of accidents, acted upon by the mechanism of natural selection, flies in the face of common sense."
"Nagel's position is that principles of an entirely different kind may account for the emergence of life, and in particular conscious life, and that those principles may be teleological, rather than materialist or mechanistic."
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