ABSTRACT
We try the following way of putting the question: Do the laws of physics give a complete explanation of all that was, that is, and that ever shall be? (Compare section 5.4.)
I share with materialists . . . the evolutionary hypothesis . . . evolution produces minds, and human language . . . human minds produce stories, ... , works of art and science. All this, so it seems, has evolved without any violation of the laws of physics .... We can only wonder that matter can thus transcend itself, by producing mind, purpose, and a world of the products of the human mind.
