(January 19, 2016 at 12:18 pm)Rhythm Wrote: QM is thoroughly and necessarily materialistic. If it suggests or leads a person to idealism, they haven't understood QM. A honeycomb is alot of empty space as well, and it doesn't seem to elicit the same sort of wonder as the "empty" desk.
No, ideas ABOUT QM are thoroughly materialistic, in that they are descended from a materialistic lineage. You don't get to say that "x" is materialistic in substance, because the issue is whether ANYTHING is, and therefore you are begging the question.