The author is edging the gap between hard materialism and something more. Axioms of hard materialism: - physical events have physical causes - everything is

The author is edging the gap between hard materialism and something more. Axioms of hard materialism: - physical events have physical causes - everything is a physical event the associated tenets of science support a kind of intellectual "clean room", isolating rational thought (stories about things) from being contaminated by specks of human emotion/desire/serendipity. Other ontologies (including my lived experience) have different core principles.