Ironically, the wood inlays are so impeccably finished they look artificial and both the hand-stitched upholstery and leather-trimmed dashboard are finished so precisely it looks as if the work were done by machine.
The gleaming white marble mosque conceived by the late Sheikh Zayed boasts a 61, 354-square-foot hand-knotted prayer carpet, 82 domes of various sizes and several reflective artificial lakes surrounding the structure.
Over the past century, materialism has gained an upper hand among philosophers, and it is certainly the common working-assumption of psychologists, neuroscientists and artificial-intelligence researchers.