Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) / quote 10 of 138
Conscious agents in a world of mindless particles
A third reason for the centrality of the mind is that, for many of us, myself included, the central question in philosophy at the beginning of the twenty-first century is how to give an account of ourselves as apparently conscious, mindful, free, rational, speaking, social, and political agents in a world that science tells us consists entirely of mindless, meaningless, physical particles. Who are we,…