“What I mean is  that we can see human beings as immanent products of the evolving world, and that in as much as human beings are members of the world, we can conceive the human beings’ knowledge of the world as being in a sense the world’s knowledge it-self, as the world attaining self-consciousness in and through its own production. I am concerned …with making the point that the idea of human beings being in and part of the world can be used in support of the conception of the world as the ultimate reality which comes to know itself in and through the mind of man…”

Fr Frederick Copleston,
Religion and the One