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    Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False Thomas Nagel “Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.” How our hunger for definitive answers robs us of the intellectual humility necessary for understanding the universe and our place in it.

    Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    Thomas Nagel

    “Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.”

    How our hunger for definitive answers robs us of the intellectual humility necessary for understanding the universe and our place in it.

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