We need not embrace a simplistic dualism that sees no influencing role for the body and brain on the mind to recognize that mind, along with our awareness of freedom, remains the most primary thing we experience. Nothing is more immediately, more intimately evident, so it doesn’t do to dismiss it as an illusion. Who, after all, is experiencing the illusion? And if choice is an illusion foisted on us by a blind process of evolution, then why should we trust our reason at all—the very reasoning faculty that supposedly tells us that we evolved through a blind process? Evolutionary materialism
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