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SUPERFICIALLY the most significant feature of the discussion at the British Association on the evolution of the universe, the contributions to which form our Supplement this week, was the question of the relation of the physical universe to life and mind. Criticisms of the physical arguments gathered so closely round the neglect of consciousness in the physical scheme that Sir James Jeans felt it necessary to explain at the end of the meeting that physicists were not necessarily ignorant of the existence or importance of consciousness in the universe, but, as members of Section A of the Association, they were not called upon to take it into account in considering then own problems.
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D., H. The Evolution of the Universe. Nature 128, 699–701 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128699a0
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