257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos
The Michael Shermer Show
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Are You a Dualist?
Many of us will, it's in our last years, wi'll have dimentia. But what happens, not infrequently, is they have this so called terminal lucidity. So for the last couple of weeks all their memories come back - almost as you remember him or her. And we would presume that we know when we die, that's it, and that's a great shame. I don't dispute we're completely embodied but i also think, and this is what makes humans so utterly peculiar, is we have this capacity for abstract in which i don't think animals do. E.E. cummings: "I try to keep an open mind"
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