Physicalism and materialism aren't remotely equivalent. I see people making this mistake too often. The dominant theory of consciousness in physics, neuroscien

Physicalism and materialism aren't remotely equivalent. I see people making this mistake too often. The dominant theory of consciousness in physics, neuroscience, neuro-physics (no surprise) and philosophy today is that conscious experience is the real intrinsic perspective of matter. As such consciousness and all its contents are necessarily subjective, qualitative, and not reducible to purely quantitative physicalism. Materialism then accounts for both consciousness and meaning (as measure of the significance of experiences relative to other experiences) in a way which physicalism cannot.