The I—the mind—is inescapable. Naturalistic science has no answer to this mystery of mysteries. “The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world,” writes atheist and philosopher Thomas Nagel.3 Cognitive scientist and philosopher Jerry Fodor goes further. “Nobody has the slightest idea how anything material could be conscious,” he remarks. “Nobody even knows what it would be like to have the slightest idea about how anything material could be conscious.”4
