Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"

[The Grand Nudger]

We do have a way of assessing whether or not our faculties represent truth.  Reason.  That's all that truth is.  We even have a way of testing those propositions we plug into our means of inference, science.  It's not that we don't possess these things, you simply don't accept their credibility in this, your special case. 

we do not really know where the experiences come from,

-the brain.

 why 

-survival

or how.

-could be any number of ways, none of which, thusfar, exceed or argue against materialism, or are inexplicable by reference to materialism. The only people producing results -of any kind- are, in fact, producing them from a necessarily materialistic framework. It could be something else entirely, and that thing may be something that exceeds the boundaries of materialism, we don't know what we don;t know, this is hardly a revelation....but until you can provide something that exceeds materialism in the first place..you're going to have a hard time justifying why you not only believe that said something exists...but is here, in this specific example of mind, present.

You see, we do know these things, that knowledge does exist, you argue against the existence of knowledge (while claiming it) and the reality of the universe (while telling us about it,what it cannot be and what -you- think it's made of)...not materialism, not materialist explanations of mind or qualia. You hold your objections to a lesser standard than you hold the thing to which you object. You exceed your own objections in the manner by which you -do- object. You will not accept any counterfactual to your initial position, regardless of the standards which it has met.

All of this only serves the purpose to plead a special case...which isn;t a fallacy if it -is- a special case..but since you;ve failed to demonstrate that it is.....a fallacy it remains. Meanwhile, you gladly steal the material concept -for- your objections in any other instance which we have ever had occasion to discuss.

Now look at that tangled mess of shit, above. Imagine, hard as it may be...that it's an accurate description of what you've been doing. Is it any wonder than no one can answer your questions to your satisfaction..and isn't the inability of anyone to answer those questions to your satisfaction your repeatedly stated reason for continuing as such?

Food for thought.