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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, me
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"Although Charles Darwin predicted that his theory 'would give zest to ... metaphysics, ' even he would be astonished at the variety of paths his theory has in