... that what metaphysicians aspire to achieve is an imposs-ible dream. They claim that it is an illusion to suppose thathuman beings can formulate and justify an undistorted pic-ture of the fundamental ... questions and possible answers,rather than aiming to be purely instructive. I have tried to write the book in a simple and non-technical style, with aview to making it accessible to as wide ... question will include people, but may well also includenon-human animals and perhaps even robots, if these too can1 An introduction to the philosophy of mind2be minded. More speculatively, the...