Monday, October 26, 2015

Stupid Materialist Tricks Of The Mind

So you totally reject metaphysics, you assert that materialism is the only basis of reality and the choice to accept a metaphysical explanation of consciousness is wrong and is inferior to the choice to accept a materialist explanation of consciousness.   People who assert a choice for metaphysics are wrong and bad and stinky,  and gave cooties, etc. 

Only problem, kid, is that your assertion of the superiority of materialism over metaphysics is, itself, a state of mind which is inconsistent with materialism. Your anti-metaphysical, materialist preference is an assertion of metaphysics.   

If our consciousness is the product of chemistry and physics present in our brain then there is no basis on which a brain, working out its particular physical prerequisites and ending up with metaphysics and a brain which ends up with materialism, there is no materialistic explanation of how one of those is wrong and one is right to support your preference.   Both are doing what is pre-ordained by the chemistry and physics of those particular brains, neither can be more wrong or more right than acetic acid and bicarbonate of soda reacting to do what it does or a photographic plate reacting with the light hitting it, producing the result it does.   

A person who prefers a metaphysical explanation of consciousness doesn't start out with that internal contradiction.  Metaphysics is not, necessarily, rigidly monist.  

Materialism is, literally, a philosophical framing that can only be right if it is wrong at its most basic and at every other level.  Oh, and, by the way, you are also asserting a philosophical expression only you don't realize that.  Materialism is a philosophical position. 

If you have an explanation of how a preference of that kind is consistent with your anti-metaphysical materialist stand, go for it. 

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