The Key Thing About Materialism

Every one of us has direct introspective experience of being an agent. We have experience of what it means to be freed. So this is kind of a basic reality. Even the materialist has to presuppose his own existence in agency and subjective experience before he can even consider the arguments for materialism. And so if it's built upon that, it makes absolutely no sense. The people who demote human beings to machines elevate future machines to the level of humans.