Materialism

Starting back in April of 2007 I began posting comment on the Materialism thread at the RD Forum. There was some good back an forth that went on for awhile. Here is the first paragraph of the first post:

Materialism has a negative quality to it, in that it states that there is no thing but material. To prove it true you would have to check everything in the Universe and show, in each case, that nothing was going on but the actions of mass and energy, thus, you can't prove it. Even if you could get around to everything, you would still run into a problem at the zeroth case, your own thoughts. You can't check the mechanism of your own thoughts while they are happening. In principal (but not technically available at this point) you could record your brain processes while awake and thinking, and then go back and look at the data later. You have not stepped out of the Universe, you have just used a time slip to get something like an outside perspective. Of course this is after you have checked everything else in the Universe, and if you can then prove materialism, it is only valid for the past.

The rest of the post is at this link.