On Materialist Visions of the Mindless Evolution of Minds from Mindless Matter

Abstract

Materialists cling to the conviction that ‘matter’ is the ultimate constituent of the process of reality, as when Dennett asserts that a “mindless little scrap of molecular machinery” is the basis for the development of mind. However, the advent of the quantum revolution indicates that the ultimate ‘stuff’ of the process of reality, made up of quantum fields, is insubstantial and immaterial. The unfolding quantum teleological perspective suggests that that there is a mind-like inner teleological ‘pressure’ operating within the quantum realm of potentiality which functions in order to manifest the potentialities into experienced ‘realities’.