[unicorn_cowboy]

Yeah, please leave the cultural analysis to anthropologists, sociologists, etc. The engineering-focused materialist way of looking at stuff like this makes my head and heart hurt.

[michaelhoney]

Why gatekeep like this? If you had developed an interesting account of some engineering topic and were told to leave it to the pros, you would find it deflating

[AndrewKemendo]

Is your opinion that there is something non-material about Humans?

[houllan633]

Are you interchangeable with a few mounds containing the exact same amount of the same molecules as your body?

[svnt]

Humans are nearly defined by their access to the abstract. The abstract is definitionally non-material.

[unicorn_cowboy]

Materialism is not fundamental; consciousness is. This assumes materialism as fundamental.

[throw36745]

Reducing sociology to physics is a category error?