The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

Is the world essentially inert and mechanical - nothing but a collection of things for us to use? Are we ourselves nothing but the playthings of chance, embroiled in a war of all against all? Why, ind…

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