For where there is no dimension of "mind" there can be no implantation
of aim or purpose either.
In turn, the rejection of a teleological universe has led in many cases
to doubt about any human purpose whatsoever. Needless to say, there has
been a close connection all along between the modern experience of
meaninglessness and the development of the picture of an impersonal,
mechanistic universe that gives no backing to our projects.
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