Cosmic Purpose and Human Consciousness

Scientists have constructed a vast and wonderful objective universe by building on the ""quantitative"" features of their experience. That universe cannot support cosmic purpose because it is without consciousness--it is completely inert. However, the ""qualitative"" features of human experience suggest the existence of an equally vast and wonderful subjective universe that complements the objective universe in scope and in reality. This edifice can and, I believe, does support a form of co...