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[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

What have you read that made you come to these conclusions? It sounds like you read the encyclopedia entries for these ideas and that's your basis. Also pulling lots of 'debate-bro' tactics, which I don't appreciate and is influencing the way I'm trying this interaction

Defining materialism as 'nothing immaterial exists or has any impact on us as material beings' is fine and correct. But the way you discuss them takes that definition and applies it In a straw-man. 'nothing immaterial' doesn't mean that consciousness is simple electric and chemicals. That's my point. Complexity and emergence are still material and part of a materialist philosophy once the dislectic is accepted as the relation between and within material

I'm not replying to the rest. Not worth our time