Mike Schwager, Editor-in-Chief of Enrichment.com, recently interviewed Amit Goswami:
MS: Dr. Amit Goswami, it’s really wonderful to have you here on Enrichment.com. Welcome
AG: Thank you.
MS: You are an adherent to the view that it’s neither random evolution as Darwin posited, nor so-called Creationism minus Evolution, but Evolution guided by Consciousness or Intelligent Design. Is that right?
AG: Yes that is right. In fact, I point out that data, if looked upon objectively without emotion, without attachment to particular theory, has been pointing to this direction for quite some time. There are the fossil gaps, there is the absolutely indisputable biological era of time from simplicity to complexity. You just mentioned two pieces of data which cannot be understood in any other way but intelligent design through quantum evolution. For in the past, you’ve had epochs of evolution in which quantum leaps of creativity took place.
MS: I see. Doctor, do these two words, Consciousness and Intelligence, carry the same meaning for you?
AG: In my usage, I don’t make much distinction because of the following reason. When this phrase, so-called artificial intelligence was coined a long time ago in the ‘50’s, the idea was that intelligence is a characteristic of the mind which can be reciprocated by machines. The belief was probably one of the most pressing beliefs of materialism; and materialists wanted to show this and once and for all prove that the human mind is nothing more than a machine. But it turns out that in 30 years, not only that the machinists have not made much progress towards producing real intelligent machines, but the word intelligence has become clear to us. Continue reading…
Many mystical philosophers are taking a “wait-and-see” attitude. This is reasonable because we live in an age of faddism where uncooked or half-baked ideas are shouted as loudly as any other idea. 
