Translation:
People claim that materialism is the inevitable outcome of scientific experiments. Science, they say, cannot be done without materialist philosophy.
But the 'matter" of materialist philosophy is an abstraction. All you have in physics are equations. Can a set of equations be the foundation of the universe?
of course. not.
Any philosophizing, to be reasonable, must start with what is self evident There is consciousness, and there are objects of consciousness.
This is a self evident fact. If you want to claim that objects of consciousness exist even without consciousness, you need to at least provide some reason why such an absurd, apparently self contradictory claim is worth paying attention to.
if this is still not clear, here's another example of the absurdity of materialist thought.
Someone who claimed not to be fully in line with materialist thinking said to me, "Well, at least you have to admit that physics has provided us with an "exhaustive" account of our experience.
Just to be sure I understood, I asked, "Do you mean that the mathematical observation that "A" below Middle C on the piano can be represented as a sound wave vibrating at 440 times per second is the same as hearing the sound?
Yes, he said.
Ok, so when I learned a Fortran-based computer music program some 40 years ago in grad school, and I went to a computer lab in Manhattan, and entered all of the mathematical data to create a music composition, I didn't need to go to the computer lab in Brooklyn where I would hear it.
it was enough to simply have the equations.
well, this could save a lot of musicians a lot of time. If we only have physics' description of the world, we can just post equations instead of all those tiresome YouTube and TikTok shorts. I'm sure that would be very popular,
This is so obviously absurd, but this is what people are talking about, whether they realize it or not, when they speak of naturalism, physicalism or materialism based on physics as supplying an "exhaustive" picture of the universe.