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Materialism 1100 Words You Need Week 21 Day 4

Materialism 1100 Words You Need Materialism 1100 Words You Need /məˈtɪə.ri.ə.lɪ.zəm/ (noun) an obsession with material things and ignoring the spiritual dimension of life, greed, greediness, acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness Materialism is a form of philosophical monism that holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions. According to philosophical materialism, mind and consciousness are by-products or epiphenomena of material processes (such as the biochemistry of the human brain and nervous system), without which they cannot exist. This concept directly contrasts with idealism, where mind ...

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