Why our universe can have cosmic purpose without God | Aeon Essays

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A kind of perfection; Berbers of the Ait Addidou tribe, Imilchil, High Atlas, Morocco (1986) by Harry Gruyaert. Courtesy of the Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York by Philip Goff + BIO A kind of perfection; Berbers of the Ait Addidou tribe, Imilchil, High Atlas, Morocco (1986) by Harry Gruyaert. Courtesy of the Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York is professor in philosophy at Durham University, UK. He blogs at Conscience and Consciousness, and his work has been published in The Guardian and Philosophy Now, among others. He is the author of Consciousness and Fundamental Reality (2017), Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (2019) and Why? The Purpose of the Universe (2023), and the co-editor of Is Consciousness Everywhere? Essays on Panpsychism (2022). Edited byNigel Warburton If you don’t believe in the God of the Bible or the Quran, then you must think we live in a meaningless universe, right? People get stuck in dichotomies of thought. If you don’t like Soviet

If you don’t believe in the God of the Bible or the Quran, then you must think we live in a meaningless universe, right? People get stuck in dichotomies of thought. If you don’t like Soviet communism, then you must be in favour of US-style capitalism. Well, not if there are political opinions other than those two (which of course there are). Another dichotomy is between traditional religion and secular atheism. Whose team are you on, Richard Dawkins’s or the Pope’s? Over a long period of time, I’ve come to think that both these worldviews are inadequate, that both have things about reality…

Why our universe can have cosmic purpose without God | Aeon Essays

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