A materialist? Which one are you talking about? Marx? Descartes? And saying that consciousness is a fruitless concept is a bit short, when this very concept is

A materialist? Which one are you talking about? Marx? Descartes? And saying that consciousness is a fruitless concept is a bit short, when this very concept is unavoidable when trying to know what is humanity. It's so fruitless that hundreds of books have been written to try to grab a part of it. It is also central to psychoanalysis, and to many major novels of the last century. Fruitless you said?