RE: Has anyone seen my neutral pointer?
September 17, 2016 at 5:33 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2016 at 5:36 pm by bennyboy.)
If you want to say "material" is "things as we experience them," that's fine. I experience stuff in dreams, and in that context, I suppose you could say that apples "exist." But I don't think you'd call those apples "material," since in fact your world view goes beyond merely labeling experiences in this way.
A cosmogonic or cosmologic "-ism" probably is about more than that-- it's more likely to be a position on the true nature of reality. And the nature of reality according to science is that what we experience doesn't exist objectively such as we experience it: there really isn't redness "out there" anywhere, for example, or even form. Show me how the experience of redness "reduces down" to QM, and I'll give you a free apple.
A cosmogonic or cosmologic "-ism" probably is about more than that-- it's more likely to be a position on the true nature of reality. And the nature of reality according to science is that what we experience doesn't exist objectively such as we experience it: there really isn't redness "out there" anywhere, for example, or even form. Show me how the experience of redness "reduces down" to QM, and I'll give you a free apple.