Robert Wright
Robert Wright is an American journalist and author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history and sociobiology.
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- That biological evolution has an arrow -- the invention of more structurally and informationally complex forms of life -- and that this arrow points toward meaning, isn't, of course, proof of the existence of God. But it's more suggestive of divinity than an alternative world would: a world in which evolution had no direction, or a world with directional evolution but no consciousness. If more scientists appreciated the weirdness of consciousness -- understood that a world with sentience, hence without meaning, is exactly the world that a modern behavioral scientist should expect to exist -- then reality might inspire more awe than it does.
- Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. ISBN 0-965-007110, p. 323.