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philosopher John Searle calls "the central problem of intellectual life today" (Searle, 2014) -if... more philosopher John Searle calls "the central problem of intellectual life today" (Searle, 2014) -if the picture of reality that science has provided us is correct, and our world really is made up entirely of mindless, meaningless particles (as described by atomic physics), how do we reconcile this picture with our self-conception as conscious, free, mindful, moral, rational, social, language-speaking agents? In other words, how do we resolve the seemingly inescapable and irreconcilable disunity between the facts of modern science and our traditional self-representations?
philosopher John Searle calls "the central problem of intellectual life today" (Searle, 2014) -if... more philosopher John Searle calls "the central problem of intellectual life today" (Searle, 2014) -if the picture of reality that science has provided us is correct, and our world really is made up entirely of mindless, meaningless particles (as described by atomic physics), how do we reconcile this picture with our self-conception as conscious, free, mindful, moral, rational, social, language-speaking agents? In other words, how do we resolve the seemingly inescapable and irreconcilable disunity between the facts of modern science and our traditional self-representations?