materialist

This means that anyone calling themselves a materialist must also have a concept of this 'rest'.

But what the heck is it if you fully believe in a materialist world?

I'm not sure I agree that apparent similarity is good enough to conclude that the US is probably conscious under a materialist framework.

This is not a terribly interesting argument, and certainly not one that counters the materialist perspective.

There is no way you can be an empiricist materialist these days, without being ignorant.

I think that to a materialist, the question might not be a hard one at all.

As I said below, if you really are a materialist, then this shouldn't bother you.

Disclaimer: I'm not sure I'm a materialist, but I'm a scientist by trade, so I have to work in that mindset.

An Orthodox thinker would say that we are our bodies (unlike many Western Christians), but not just our bodies (unlike a materialist).

I'm not a nihilist or materialist, but I have to laugh after 20 years.

Qualia, a materialist would say, is an illusion.

Even Gödel believed this, though he believed the mind had more capabilities than the brain.[1] As a materialist, you would share the commonly-accepted view and reject his latter claim.

I understand you're a dualist, but from the materialist standpoint, "spatially distributed group entities" describes neurons.

A materialist rejects "consciousness" as a fruitful term, observing that it often leads to confusion and non-sequiturs, as contradictions often do.

Also: A materialist view of consciousness does not need to examine from the "outside".

I thought the point was that this provides another channel (etiology?) for materialist explanations of "Eastern" medicine.