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Thomas Nagel Quotes:

Ocupation: Philosopher

Life: b. July 4, 1937

Birthday: July 4

Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical--that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental....

- Thomas Nagel

source: Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.47, Oxford University Press

topic: World, Elements, Form

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