RE: Why materialists are predominantly materialists
September 17, 2016 at 10:37 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2016 at 10:38 am by Excited Penguin.)
(September 17, 2016 at 10:27 am)bennyboy Wrote:(September 17, 2016 at 10:19 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: 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
Are you sure matter is self-evident? If so, then you must have at least a pretty good understand of what it is. Okay. . . what is it?
It is that which occupies space and has rest mass, as distinct from energy.
You might want to question a physicist for more details about that. Or use google, for that matter.
Whether what we experience exists outside of our minds or not is a moot point. Whether it does, or it doesn't, we will never know and we have no reason to believe it would make any difference either way.
Reality is there. We have to describe it somehow. The best way to describe it is as physical and/or material. To claim there's some other plane beyond that is to delve into stupidity. Just so, matter is simply an idea used to explain certain phenomena. Unless you scientifically arive at a better way to describe these things, you're doing nothing but circling the drain of intellectual bedrock.
