"Einstein said once that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." (p. 390)
Why should comprehension be incomprehensible? Organisms evolved to survive within their environments which are part of this universe. Organisms became conscious so that they could be conscious of their objective environment, not of some cerebrally constructed but inaccurate representation that failed to correspond to external reality. When human psychophysical organisms became capable of comprehension, they had to comprehend at least some aspects of their externally existing environment, not of some imagined or hypothesized realm existing only inside their brains.
Our comprehension of the universe reflects the fact that we evolved by interacting with this universe. It does not imply that our minds connect with something like a mind behind the universe. Never said it did? Platonist philosophers do think that.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I think you are overthinking this. It's simpler to believe Einstein was merely being droll.
Ad astra! Sean
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