to discover ourselves in the midst of an unanswerable mystery about who we are and why we are the kind of creatures we are. How can we explain consciousness, which enables us to break free of the necessities and laws of the natural world of which we are a part in order to imagine different worlds and possibilities? I suspect that my cat is closer to Dawkins’ limitless understanding than I am or ever want to be, because only a creature enmeshed within the finite horizons of animality, deprived of
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