On 5/24/2015 4:43 AM, Pierz wrote:
Quite. Materialism has something of a head-start.
Not really. Spiritualism and animism ruled the world for millenia before Galileo and even before Democritus and Aristotle. The idea that consciousness controlled clouds, planets, disease, seas, plants,... had a big head start that lead us to Catholicism, Islam, etc as the *consciousness* was gradually consolidated, distilled, and driven out of this world into a world beyond empirical testing.
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