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Materialism is a form of philosophical monism that holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions.
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In Materialism, matter is considered non-phenomenal “stuff”. In Materialism, matter is considered non sentient, non experiential, non conscious.
Materialism is the metaphysical doctrine that the world is made of intrinsically non-phenomenal “stuff”. Materialism and physicalism are often treated as cousins and sometimes as mere stylistic variants – with “physicalism” used as a nod to how bosonic fields, for example, are not matter. “Physicalistic materialism” is the claim that physical reality is fundamentally non-experiential and that the natural world is exhaustively described by the equations of physics and their solutions.
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“Materialism: properly arranged, matter naturally forms minds that feel” —Robin Hanson
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