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Ep. 13 - On the Freedom of Thought and Nature: Freeman Dyson and Stephen Blackwood

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The Negative Effects of Reductivist Materialism

One way of getting at this question is what I take to be a kind of, let's say, aggressive reductivist materialism. One sees this popularly in the idea that only the findings of empirical science are really real. That's a widely held view which would then discount non-material realities as having any reality at all. So for example, and tell me if you think this is a, this makes sense.

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