Bertvan@aol.com writes
in message <19.21a0435.260bb13d@aol.com>:
Thanks for your comments, I find that we're mostly in agreement
on the big picture, but have a few differences on details.
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> However most people I've regarded as materialists didn't
> object to the popular definition of the term. There was nothing
> tentative about their assertion that "everything real" can be
> explained as consisting of matter and energy.
While I agree with your observation that anti-religious crusades
exist and the above assertion may often be driven by that, I
also wonder if it is possible to think of matter and energy as
still very mysterious "entities" after all this time that just
might be capable of more than previously thought. Rather than
assuming that a materialistic conclusion diminishes or reduces
human experience, we can do the reverse and conclude that matter
and energy are far more complicated and mysterious than we ever
suspected.
Or we may yet observe a consistent affect that resists classification
as either matter or energy. (Have the IDs already found it?
Well, I'm watching and waiting.)
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