RE: Why materialists are predominantly materialists
September 17, 2016 at 10:19 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2016 at 10:19 am by Excited Penguin.)
(September 17, 2016 at 10:10 am)bennyboy Wrote:(September 17, 2016 at 5:47 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: I refute it thus!
If you don't get that reference, sit on a chair the tactile experience is proof of a material existence.
I dreamed I fucked Tomb Raider era Angelina Jolie. It felt real, so it must really be real! My Christian friends feel "God" in their hearts, so that must prove God is real too.
Oh wait. . . experiences don't necessarily validate our beliefs about where they COME from.
Everything is real. Dreams, feelings, the whole lot. There are degrees of real to be considered, however, for the purpose of intelligibility.
Everything is physical, too. That doesn't refute solipsism, which is as strong as ever and will forever remain as such to our minds. It does help to better describe the world, however. Science is concerned with being as parsimonious in its explanatory power as possible. That is a good thing. There is nothing to be gained from chasing nonsense which is what happens when one questions the reality of something so ubiquitous and self-evident as matter and/or the physical world.
