``Well, I blame Francis Bacon. I know, I know: one can talk of Christianity’s “desacralization” of creation, or of the Enlightenment having delivered humanity from the terrors of the “demon-haunted world,” but all of that is misleading.''
One of the great questions confronting materialism is consciousness. David Bentley Hart has a new article on consciousness on the First Things site.
And the profoundest mystery of consciousness is consciousness itself, because we really have little or no clear idea what it is, or how it could either arise from or ally itself to the material mechanisms of the brain. …
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