"...if life and mind have arisen in and from matter, then the universe ceases to be a purely physical mechanism, and the system which results must provide a real place for the factors of life and mind." From Holism and Evolution by J.C. Smuts, South African soldier, statesman and philosopher.
No doubt many of the things we see around us are anthropomorphisms and apparent contradictions. Smuts is a case in point, he fought the British in the Boer War, but somewhere found the time to make a significant contribution to contemporary thinking on evolution. He was a South African and a soldier, and a philosopher and a statesman; he fought with the British in the both the First and Second World Wars and in the end opposed segregation.
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