Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
Is There a Negative Definition of Time?
The universe is girdleian in terms of girdles and completeness proof. The configurations of matter, the configurations that exist now are always incomplete. Time is the essential incompleteness of the world. But because of this, emergence is possible. Our nature is fundamentally incomplete. And that's why evolution is possible. That's why consciousness is possible. So I think of the title to have these sort of hidden multiple meanings that we're incomplete.
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