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The problem for language was how to get from sound to meaning. Nothing ever has an absolute existence, not even planets or hydrogen atoms. They just “show up”. Consciousness is a mental and therefore not physical feature of the brain. Our capacity for consciousness is and other mental phenomena are a result of long periods of biological evolution. If the supernatural existed, it too would have to be natural.
The problem for language was how to get from sound to meaning. Nothing ever has an absolute existence, not even planets or hydrogen atoms. They just “show up”. Consciousness is a mental and therefore not physical feature of the brain. Our capacity for consciousness is and other mental phenomena are a result of long periods of biological evolution. If the supernatural existed, it too would have to be natural.
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