Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"

[bennyboy]

Now you're objecting to linguistics, not materialism.  I;m sorry that the word matter is not used to refer to what you insist it must refer to.  That's your problem, not a problem for matter or materialism.

You are too slippery. You claimed science supports your world view with regard to qualia, but refused to provide any science supporting your world view with regard to qualia. I said that I felt "material" should refer to something specific, you refuse to define it in specific terms. I contend that the modern definition of material is so strained that it now overlaps with common definitions of words with which it was once considered mutually exclusive-- like "miracle," or "idea," and you start talking about my problems instead of simply demonstrating my point to be false.

Do you even KNOW what you think these terms mean? What is matter to you, or materialism? Give me something as substantive as the world, something I can sink my teeth into.

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I can provide links of physicists who claim that QM is incompatible with material monism. At least some physicists share my view, and I'm assuming that many probably share yours. Alex, our own resident physicist, seems not too eager to engage in this particular debate, asking as far as I recall, for askers to tell him what they mean when they say "materialism." You think I'm just trying to use word salad in support of woo, but you may be surprised to find that I care enough about the subject actually to have searched around, read forums and debates about it, and so on.

Have you?