How the meaningless process of natural selection produces purposeful beings who find meaning in the world.
The key to this, Haig proposes, is the origin of mutable "texts"--genes--that preserve a record.
Natural selection, a process without purpose, gives rise to purposeful beings who find meaning in the world.
In From Darwin to Derrida , evolutionary biologist David Haig explains how a physical world of matter in motion gave rise to a living world of purpose and meaning.
How the meaningless process of natural selection produces purposeful beings who find meaning in the world