> That materialism is much less popular than I expected. I wonder how much is due to selection bias
The overwhelming majority of human beings both now and historically are dualists, so this isn't surprising to me at all.
Materialists always lose me when they start trying to explain things like how exactly inanimate matter started thinking. I've never seen any recourse other than handwaving of the highest order. Usually it's something along the lines of emergent behavior, but no mechanism is ever given for how or why said emergence occurs.
The overwhelming majority of human beings both now and historically are dualists, so this isn't surprising to me at all.
Materialists always lose me when they start trying to explain things like how exactly inanimate matter started thinking. I've never seen any recourse other than handwaving of the highest order. Usually it's something along the lines of emergent behavior, but no mechanism is ever given for how or why said emergence occurs.