The prevailing dominant account of a meaningless, purely material cosmos, supplied by the reductionist strategy of the left hemisphere, fails to make sense of value, whether that be truth, goodness or beauty, just as it fails to make sense of consciousness. Its answer in every case is the same: that they must be emanations of that purely material cosmos – emanations of matter – that exist purely to further utility. It seems to me that, if you believe that, you will believe anything; you might even end up believing that consciousness is an illusion.
