their biological functions.96 2. Our minds are able to think about things, but a clump of matter can’t be “about” anything. For example, if our brains were just lumps of matter, then how could anything about frozen Antarctica be inside my brain cells, which have never been there? Atheistic philosopher Alex Rosenberg writes: Consciousness is just another physical process. So, it has as much trouble producing aboutness as any other physical process . . . it’s got to be an illusion, since nothing physical can be about anything . . . the clumps of matter
