Why Materialism is Baloney

4:05 "we never come in contact with purely quantitative matter"
Stand in front of a moving train and then come back to tell me about your qualitative experience of it

I will begin my critique by stating that I am not a materialist, I am a Christian platonist. With that being said, I feel like your opening statements had several issues but I will reserve my opinions until I finish.

Issue 1: I think this is going to harm your video, I think you incorrectly define materialism. Materialism is far better defined as the idea that all things can be reduced to infinitely simple (fundemental) components. This is false, but because you have incorrectly defined materialism, you have given the materialists a way out of your logical trappings.

Issue 2: "Materialism replaces the territory with the map." You begin this point by declaring that quantitative values are to be understood as descriptions of a qualitative world. This comparison assumes that qualitative values are somehow "more real" than quantitative values. This cannot be assumed to be true. Obviously if the world around us is fundementally qualitative, and quantities are mere tools for comprehending it, then materialism is false. However, there is very little evidence to suggest this. The universe doesn't obey "qualitative laws." It obeys laws of quantity. Once again, this doesn't mean the world is materialistic, but it means that you are making a bad argument. We live in a quantitative world which we commonly understand as being qualitative. This quantities, however, are not material. They are abstractions, which are perfectly real. Therefore materialism is false.

Issue 3: The problem of conciousness is a good argument. No complaints. Conciousness is not infinitely reducible to fundemental components.

Issue 4: "Particles don't exist without measurement." This is demonstrably false and results as a misunderstanding of quantum mechanics. Particles don't have definable properties without measurement, they exist as a probabalistic wave function, a set of possible states. While unobserved, it is not the case that they do not exist at all, but rather that they exist in all of these states.

In any case, I agree with your ultimate conclusion. Materialism is false. But these reasons are not sound.

I see like Alex OConnor he has removed the bookshelves from background. Good idea i think anyway for same reason as Alex

What you are describing is the very essence of modern commerce. One based almost entirely around quantity and not quality. The more rare something is (quantity), the more of the units of exchange are needed to buy it (quantity). The value is almost entirely quantity based. Everyone knows the quantity but not the quality. This scarcity thinking leads to the dehumanization of life by reducing everything to the monetization process.

Great video. Just want to clarify for myself. You mentioned brain activity while on psychodelics and while sleeping. You said that it is lower than in regular situations. But according to what i read online it's higher. (for sleep, it also depends on a phase) Can provide links, if necessary. Thanks.

The affinity of neurotransmitters affects how effectively they can modulate specific neuronal pathways, but whether this leads to an overall increase or decrease in brain activity depends on the broader context of neural interactions and the functional roles of the specific neurotransmitters and receptors involved.

Materialism is an idea or a system of ideas, a metaphysics, which can't even demonstrate or define what matter is.

So adrift in a sea of shared insignificance with zero free will then. Great!

I'm only eight minutes into this and it is so excellent.

Bernardo I wish you would debate that Dave Farina, a staunch materialist. I am sure he would leave in a wheel chair.

A Universe without consciousness (before or after) is the dumbness thing ever., hahaha.

I can't thank you enough Bernado. After watching them all and especially the German woman's blind alters analogy, you have given us all a LOT more to consider. This broader perspective can help us prepare to understand many unexplained hidden variables. Thanks immensely.

Now to catch my preconconcieved blindnesses as I watch them all over again 🖖

I've been diving into this topic and feel if we can get past this religious zeal for materialism / scientism we will have the possibility to solve many pathologies in the world such as nihilism. There has been a sort of schizophrenic split since modernity and this atomizing view of the world is a problem. Unfortunately we take materialism for granted which makes it challenging to even look at.

Matéria, para o materialismo, é uma abstração teórica, não um dado de nossa experiência empírica.

Atheists ARE Materialists Rationalists Reductionists = FACT!

NO, I am NOT a Christian.

I might be a (Dark and eclectic), Pagan, however.

I guess I could be a Hindu.

I guess I could even be a Buddhist.

NO, I am NOT any shade of anything Abrahamic.

NO, I am NOT a (Hippy Dippy), New Age Lightworker.

Which one, am I, lol?

Why is the baloney of the material world not like the instinct of a flock of geese, ie natural baloney? An illusion but a real illusion? How will the taking of the illusion less seriously, as a dashboard, help us? Why are our measurements, our thoughts, no matter how inaccurate, not part of nature?

If the biblical narrative were true, the fall of man was the naming of the places and animal where we slipped into a fixed and measured reality.

9:15 how do we know this?

Ceci n'est pas une pipe