Paper: Mind and Cosmos: Why the Neo-Darwinian Materialist Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

This extraordinary high-level philosophical treatise was prepared by Thomas Nagel, a prominent and renowned secular atheist philosopher. In the work, the author argues exhaustively and analytically that the dominant standard evolutionary approach (reductive neo-Darwinian materialism) is fundamentally and structurally inadequate to provide a logical explanation for the reality of the mind, rational cognition, subjective consciousness and, crucially, the undeniable existence of objective moral values. Nagel categorically argues that the monumental psychophysical failure of the materialist paradigm demands a large-scale cosmological and epistemic revolution. The text suggests that intrinsic teleological principles (processes inherently oriented toward a specific end or purpose) must be inextricably woven into the most fundamental fabric of the laws of nature, necessarily replacing the untenable vision of an accidental and blind universe guided exclusively by purely mechanistic physical principles.