Mind and Cosmos - Thomas Nagel
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Narrator: Brian Troxell
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Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False By: Thomas Nagel Narrated by: Brian Troxell Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 02-04-14 Language: English Publisher: Audible Studios 4 out of 5 stars 4.1 (172 ratings), Publishers Summary The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology., Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of th
