Why materialists are predominantly materialists

[bennyboy]

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.

Nope what, I;m just wondering if you're looking to explain something -in this universe- with your caveat of where what rules apply and so forth, lol.

Literally everything in the human experience is NOT explained by any of the frameworks on which the human context supervenes. What things are like to experience, complex ideas, dreams, emotions. . . none of it is usefully informed by what's happening at the quantum level.

I don't think a quantum mechanical theory will be required.  Our brains are pretty big.  Yeah, though, a computational theory only requires -a- medium.  Not any specific medium.  Regardless of what comp theory does and does not require...we have -a- medium that is specific...in our brains.  That's in this universe, anyway.

That's fine, and you and I will never agree on this. When I'm writing music, I imagine a few different sounds, and I put them together in an idea space that I call the mind. That's the reality of music-making. You can talk about how it's the brain doing stuff, and that's fine-- you can go into the brain, follow that complex dance of neurons as they interact, and will completely fail to learn anything about how to compose good music.

That's because it is the ideas which are interacting which other in their context, and the brain functions on which those ideas, and their interactions, supervene.