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from Weird Studies/Pretentiousness
  • Some fulminations against materialism but I realize what they mean by this is not what I mean (not sure who is more standard). They mean it in a kind of dour Marxist mode, that is, it is an emphasis on grim reality and a negation of the imaginal. This is not what materialism means to a physicist. It's more what I call gradgrindism.
    • So, I want to say: no no no, the material is not the enemy of the imaginal, far from it.
      • BUT: maybe I'm wrong. The techno-scientific-capitalism world sure seems that way!
from Simon Conway Morris
from neovitalism
  • A Materialism very different from the scientific/atheist/rationalist variety.
from gnosticism
  • This spirit seems to manifest in the WS sphere as a hatred, not of the world per se, but of materialism in its various forms. They see the face of their enemy there.

materialism

17 Jun 2022 - 08 Sep 2024
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    • Varieties of materialism

    • The word means too many different things. And nobody really cares about the nature of matter, which they think they know pretty well from daily life, but on the nature of mind and spirit.
    • Reductionist – mind can be explained by material forces
    • Eliminativist – mind (or at least most theories of mind) are based on illusions and should not be taken seriously.
    • Economic vs. metaphysical
    • Naturalism (or anti-supernaturalism)

    • My theory which is mine

    • The material basis of mind is crushingly obvious. But the immaterial aspects of mind are perfectly real and either are reducible to material explanations or are at least implemented as mechanisms.
    • Whether the material or the immaterial is more foundational is a bogus non-question, which should be dissolved through nondualism or just by common sense.
      • I can't quite articulate the argument, but if you think about this long enough it starts to seems like a status game masquerading as philosophy. What's more important, ideas or mechanisms? It reduces down to a class conflict between people who are good at different forms of thought, but reality doesn't much care about that. See Omniorthogonal: A Consumer's Guide to the Foundations of Reality

    • Hylomorphism

      • While both hylomorphists and materialists may speak about matter and form, they differ in how they view the status of form. For hylomorphists, form is a fundamental and irreducible part of reality, intimately connected with the nature of things. For materialists, form is a derivative, emergent feature of matter, without any independent metaphysical significance.
        • – ChatGPT
      • I don't get it.