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Max Goodbird's avatar

Great article! You nailed the two major areas where a purely materialist view breaks down: math and consciousness.

Penrose has a really sophisticated understanding of how these things interweave. I highly recommend the first few chapters of Road to Reality (but the book as a whole is really dense, I had to fight my way through it). Here’s a good summary: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2019/11/12/an-eternal-triangle/

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Adam Elwood's avatar

Excellent post! I broadly agree, but have a suspicion that mathematical ‘truths’ are really just tautologies that are true by definition, they just seem profound because our minds are so limited.

I also think materialism is just a shared conscious inference — I think you made this point really well.

In the end, the only thing that we’re really sure of is that consciousness exists, though. This makes me lean towards idealism

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