Why materialists are predominantly materialists

[bennyboy]

My view on this is that levels of function supervene on others, but aren't dependent on them.  For example, massive objects, their orbits, the forces that act on them, etc. don't necessarily depend on QM mechanics.  I mean, in our universe they do, but you could have billiard-ball mechanics with many other frameworks under the hood.

Are you trying to explain something that happens in our universe, or another universe?

Nope.  It doesn't matter if we're in the Matrix, the Mind of God, or a physical monism, the same applies. Whatever you think lies under the hood, gravity is gravity, trees are trees, and that Gallic bitch in the public bath, that one wearing the new blue tunic, is still a bitch.

If you want to make a quantum-mechanical theory of mind, go ahead. But as far as I know, your theory of mind depends on information, and information is a very good example of something which requires A medium, but not a specific one-- it doesn't really matter if information is encoded as computer bits, seashells on the beach, or as a trillion fairies dancing through a double slit.