“The majority of biologists picture mind as emerging at some stage in the
evolution of animals. Before that time there was no mind. From no mind
comes mind. Agar proposed the alternative that there has been no moment
in evolution when mind made its first appearance. Minds and bodies
evolved together even though that body be only a proton or an atom. It
is more reasonable to suppose that both objective and subjective have
existed as long as anything has existed than to suppose that the
subjective has emerged from the non­subjective or that it does not exist
at all.”

The above passage is an excerpt from this essay by Charles Birch.

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