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>>14426363
>sans misinterpretations of quantum physics
This argument has only ever been used by people immensely butthurt that quantum mechanics effectively BTFO materialism as a coherent concept and ever since then any reference to QM has been disparagingly called “quantum mysticism” to discredit the very simple fact that QM reveals the existence of massless “things” (particles, strings, fields etc)
I say this as an actual scientist, materialism is and always has been the argument that all things has MASS, ie are tangible. Now it has been supplanted by physicalism which is an impossible position to arrive because you simply endlessly redefine what “physical” means to be larger and larger in scope. At this stage Jesus could come down on earth TODAY and resurrect people left and right and you would still argue that physicalism is right and metaphysics is wrong since your definition of the physical is just a copy+paste of “real”. There was only ever ONE materialist viewpoint that had actual falsifiable criteria that could be universally tested, all things have mass, massless things don’t exist, a nice tightly defined property of the “real” and it was summarily BTFO by QM. Materialists cannot and will not ever recover, everything else has been cope.

>>14185616
This is fucking WMD-grade cringe. Let’s try again:
>Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a door
>Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a light switch
>Science is like being in a dark room and deciding to sit down and solve math problems out loud to pass the time
>Theology is like being in a dark room and going to sleep to see if things are different when you wake up

Describe this image in your absolute best prose.