Soul Dust or a Matter of Mind

Abstract

According to some materialists, consciousness is an illusion generated by matter mattering to itself, and is ultimately ontologically non-existent, thus, consciousness is just so remarkable that an unwary brain might be tempted to think consciousness is really real. However, both direct phenomenological investigation and modern science show that, contrary to materialists’ desires, consciousness “has its own intrinsic degrees of freedom” and is a fundamental dimension of reality. Ultimately we are not the result of the evolution of an “original dollop of physical matter”. The ideas presented the book Soul Dust are an excellent example of the kind of ridiculous and logically incoherent accounts of the mindless evolution of matter into ‘illusory’ mind which are penned by materialist advocates of primordial mindlessness.