Oh, I should also add that I am a communist (ironically, ‘converted’ while in the Army).
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Like I said above, fire is not made of hot stuff, water is not made of wet stuff, etc. The ‘atoms’ that make up our subjective reality would not themselves be in motion or be conscious. But yes, consciousness is odd sort of ‘illusion’ in that it creates a subjective reality. Would it make sense to think of levels of reality, with some being ‘more real’ than others? Or maybe we can think of certain levels being ‘dependent’ on lower / more fundamental levels? Consciousness would then be located at a very high level, far from the ‘foundation’. (Which is part of why I am an atheist.)
Not falsifiable, but more parsimonious than thinking that something ‘acts out’ the reality that we see. Other explanations of reality leave behind a material residue. A bit like saying that water is made of wet stuff, fire is made of hot stuff, etc. True explantions ‘destroy’ the things that they explain. And I favor the theological argument that the foundation of reality must be something necessary. Mathematical Platonic reality does the job perfectly.
I am an atheist Platonist. I believe that ultimate reality is mathematical / tautological in nature, and that matter, mind, motion are all illusions.
I have wondered about the assumption that technological / scientific / economic progress can continue forever, and I am also suspicious of the idea that arbitrary degrees of hyper-intelligence are possible. I suspect that all things have limits, and that mother nature long ago found most of those limits.