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Hah, hope you're being sarcastic. Consciousness/thought existing prior to matter is the foundation of most ancient philosophy. In fact, it's only become increa
by lukev 11y ago
Hah, hope you're being sarcastic. Consciousness/thought existing prior to matter is the foundation of most ancient philosophy.
In fact, it's only become increasingly fashionable in the last couple centuries to posit matter as a "root-level" metaphysical construct (or actually, to make the claim that there is no metaphysics, just physics.)
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- lukev 11y agoOh, certainly. But western philosophy prior to the enlightenment (and for a bit after) was dominated by scholastic or otherwise theologically-based thought.