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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.

Let's talk about consciousness, the universe, and the origin of life. Join me as I explore the unknown! Thomas Stephen McIlwain is an Irish-born philosopher who holds a MS from Stanford University in Bioengineering and a BS from UW, also in Bioengineering.