Quoted: ?I wouldn?t criticize him for not knowing a lot of details about evolutionary biology,? said Elliott Sober, a philosopher of biology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was highly critical of ?Mind and Cosmos? in Boston Review. But Mr. Nagel?s arguments, he continued, are marred by flawed reasoning about probability: ?He sees the origins of life and consciousness as remarkable facts which had to have had a high probability of happening. I don?t buy that.?
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