RE: Why materialists are predominantly materialists
September 17, 2016 at 6:44 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2016 at 6:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 17, 2016 at 6:35 pm)Bunburryist Wrote: This is where I think the "common sense" concept of materialism becomes very, very important. It is our education as children (in which we learned in early childhood to think in a simplistic materialism) that we learn to believe that "science describes the material world."Science, again, is based upon methodological materialism. Science can't describe anything else, it self limits by definition.
Quote:That is, we learn to believe "this experience" is a material world, and learn to think in language that fits hand in glove with it, then we learn scientific ideas and believe they "describe the material world."The majority do -not- learn to believe that, at any point in their lives...in this country.
Quote: It is this society-wide materialist worldview foundation that has so much intellectual inertia. Various types of materialists can argue all day long between their ivory towers, but below them lies a public who believe, implicitly, unthinkingly, and almost universally that they are "human beings," that they are "made of atoms," ad that they "think with their brains."Those three questions at the end there sound like something that comes out of the mouth of the machine before it launches a global nuclear assault on all of humanity, lol.
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