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by yongjik 1065 days ago
> If you start under the assumption that materialism is true (...) you can't trust any of your thoughts since they are: 1. Out of your control, since it's all physics. 2. Created by a brain that evolved to survive, not to create logic.

On the other hand, if materialism is false then your thoughts are (1) definitely out of your control, since they aren't even constrained by physics, and (2) exist due to some mechanism that's not just not understood so far, but not understandable in principle (otherwise it will be inside the realm of science).

How is that better?