The problem with Scientific Materialism. (In short)

[Metanoeia]

Well said, thanks!

[CammieSpectrum]

most scientific theories are intended as something hidden and beyond measurement; such as the field of quanta, for all that is measurable is the loss in energy in ATom A and the gian in energy in Atom B; there is no evidence of a photon inbetween nor could there be any evidence for it, for it is inbetween evidence

[axisares]

You should check out 2 vids on here titlked 'The Quantam Apocalypse' and 'What is Modernity.' I think these will give you some interesting perspectives on scientific materialism.

[AdamGoon]

So what are YOU?

[AdamGoon]

Shakespear once asked 'are we but the stuff that dreams are made of?'. This experience of the world is much the same as the stuff we encounter in dreams, if you dreamt for long enough- and constructed a set of beliefs about those experiences- it would still only be the stuff of dreams.

You are not your experience of a body, you are not your experience of a brain. Label your experience as much as you like- but to identify with experience is just a choice you make- with no reality behind it...

[AdamGoon]

What would it mean to call experience a material thing?

So, you have this experience of life- from which YOU construct a concept of 'material' stuff, which you then apply to the very stuff from which that it was abstracted. Would arbitrarily labelling experience 'material' actually tell you what it was?

[jacobins3000]

How do you know experience is not a material thing? It could very well just be a chemical reaction within the brain, which evolved though natural processes, so as to enable living entities a better chance at survival.