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Short, but interesting, article. I can at least relate to this notion of 'materialistic pantheism'... interesting to describe what seems to be essentially a mys

Short, but interesting, article. I can at least relate to this notion of 'materialistic pantheism'... interesting to describe what seems to be essentially a mystic perspective as 'materialistic'.

cobbzilla 7y ago
“materialism” has a more specific meaning in philosophy jargon. iirc it is something like: matter is fundamental and everything arises from it (including things like consciousness), without requiring any metaphysical component (heaven, gods, etc).
- marzell 7y ago
  hmm ok so it seems similar to essentialism v existentialism.
- blumomo 7y ago
  Just to state a counter hypothesis: there are people, such as the scientist Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Peter Dürr who claim that actually first there was the mind and only then matter followed.