Materialism: a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all phenomena, including mental phenomena and consciousness, are the result of material interactions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism ---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote : You forgot to add, "And I know all of this to be true because I paid tens of thousands of dollars to a brown-skinned man in white robes who assured me both that everything he said was Truth Incarnate and that I was better than other people because I knew it and they didn't. Non sequitur. I'm just making the point that your arguments above would be stronger if you presented the actual reasons you believe them. No need to thank me...I'm just trying to help... "Obviously consciousness is prior to everything else in the cosmos. In fact, consciousness is all there is in the universe. The only certainty you have is that you are self-conscious that you exist. Time, space and physicality occur within consciousness, not the other way around." An Atheist’s Guide to Spirituality by Sam Harris http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/an-atheists-guide-to-spirituality http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/an-atheists-guide-to-spirituality jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]> Scientists who believe this are wrong. It should be the other way around. Conscious is the basis of everything in the universe. They should use common sense and reason to understand the mechanics of Nature.
