Great Regulars: Encounter

White-bearded guy

from Frank Wilson: Books, Inc.--The Epilogue: Poem . . .

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I am told, by the way, that the preferred phrase for this outlook is "biological determinism," but since life has presumably come about through a similar line of causation the differentiation seems academic, biology being just another brand of chemistry and chemistry another brand of physics. This seems especially so if everything is just the universe doing its stuff.

Nevertheless, an explanation of existence positing that our most immediate experience of it--namely, our sense of ourselves in the world--is an illusion would seem to demand an act of faith as great as any religious proposition I can think of.

from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: Are we just the universe doing its stuff?

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