Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

by Brian Greene

Large groups often display statistical regularities absent at the level of the individual.

the intentional stance33 (we attribute knowledge, beliefs, desires, and thus intentions to the animals and humans we encounter).

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“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. But a song makes you feel a thought.”22 Feel a thought. For me, that captures the essence of artistic truth. As Harburg emphasized, thinking is intellectual, feeling is emotional, but “to feel a thought is an artistic process.”

all art has the capacity to make us feel thoughts, yielding a variety of truth we would be unlikely to anticipate from conscious deliberation or factual analysis.

Immortal souls, sacred stories, illimitable gods, eternal laws, transcendent art, mathematical theorems.