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“Mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed always as the matrix, the source and condition of physical reality.”
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“Life has a status in the physical universe. It is part of the order of nature. It has a high place in that order, since it probably represents the most complex state of organisation that matter has achieved in our universe. We on this planet have an especially proud place as men; for in us as men matter has begun to contemplate itself...”
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“A physicist is the atom's way of knowing about atoms.”
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“So that is the problem of mind -- consciousness -- a vast, unchartable domain that includes all science, yet that science cannot deal with, has no way of approaching; not even to identify its presence or absence; that offers nothing to measure, and nothing to locate, since it has no location.
A few years ago it occurred to me -- albeit with some shock to my scientific sensibilities -- that my two problems, that of a lifebreeding universe, and that of consciousness that can neither be identified nor located, might be brought together. That would be with the thought that mind, rather than being a late development in the evolution of organisms, had existed always: that this is a lifebreeding universe because the constant presence of mind made it so.”
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A few years ago it occurred to me -- albeit with some shock to my scientific sensibilities -- that my two problems, that of a lifebreeding universe, and that of consciousness that can neither be identified nor located, might be brought together. That would be with the thought that mind, rather than being a late development in the evolution of organisms, had existed always: that this is a lifebreeding universe because the constant presence of mind made it so.”
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