…And here Sheldrake shares with other theorists the idea that purpose and consciousness pervade the universe and that, as argued by Thomas Nagel, it has a cosmic predisposition to the formation of life and consciousness, so that all life is part of a vast…

…even in electrons and atoms and so on. More interestingly and more persuasively, one of the leading American philosophers of mind, Thomas Nagel, came out with a book three months ago, which I think is a very, very important milestone. It's called Mind and…

…that mind pervades the whole universe. The next first eminent philosopher to do that was a couple of years ago Thomas Nagel, America's leading philosophy of mind at Columbia. who produced a book called Mind and Cosmos, Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian…

…is not intrinsically unconscious or mindless. It has a kind of mind-like aspect. Interestingly, the top US philosopher of mind, Thomas Nagel, came out last year with a book adopting panpsychism. It caused shock and horror in the ranks of academic psychology…

…really just reinventing dualism on a kind of evolutionary basis. More interestingly, and I think more coherently, the American philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote a book a few months ago, which I think is a breakthrough in modern philosophy. Nagel is a leading…

…really just reinventing dualism on a kind of evolutionary basis. More interestingly, and I think more coherently, the American philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote a book a few months ago, which I think is a breakthrough in modern philosophy. Nagel is a leading…

…bit about whether consciousness extends as well. Let's start with a couple of definitions. What is consciousness? Well, the philosopher Thomas Nagel defines it this way, and it's a good starting point for me. He says, for a conscious organism, there is…

…brains because it's already there in lower forms, even in the electrons and atoms that constitute the molecules and the cells. Thomas Nagel, the American philosopher of mind, wrote a book about four years ago that really sat the cat among the pigeons in…

…and subatomic particles. There must be some kind of mental aspect to all nature. A more recent convert to that view is Thomas Nagel, one of America's leading philosophers of mind at Columbia, who three years ago produced a book called Mind and Cosmos, Why…