> Could you expand on this? Is it related to materialism (of the socioeconomic type)? In English, “materialism” has multiple unrelated meanings-“materialism” a

> Could you expand on this? Is it related to materialism (of the socioeconomic type)? In English, “materialism” has multiple unrelated meanings-“materialism” as in putting (excessive) value on material things is different from “materialism” as a theory in philosophy of mind (that the material brain is ontologically more fundamental than the conscious mind)-a person could be either without being the other, or a person could be both Even among philosophers, “materialism” doesn’t always mean the same thing-when philosophers of mind debate “materialism”, they are discussing a rather different question than Marxist philosophers are when they use that word (even though those two debates started out as one, they’ve gone off in different directions, diverged)