Jan

“The personal eludes biology in just the way that the face in the picture eludes the theory of pigments. The personal is not an addition to the biological: it emerges from it, in something like the way the face emerges from the colored patches on a canvas.”
― Roger Scruton, On Human Nature

“We do not find obvious evidence of life or mind in so-called inert matter…; but if the scientific point of view is correct, we shall ultimately find them, at least in rudimentary form, all through the universe

It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically.

And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.”
― J.B.S. Haldane

“There is a beauty in these laws that mirrors something that is built into the structure of the universe at a very deep level”
― Steven Weinberg, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

“The 'physical world' is a postulated explanatory framework which abstracts certain properties (physical properties) from our experience and thinks of them as objectively existing”
― Keith Ward