Materialism is absurd

[blankisomeone]

“ism” is a suffix that comes from Ancient Greek which means “excrement of a bull”

[snowyowl]

Materialism and idealism may not be true, they seem to be unprovable after all (like most philosophy and religion lol) but they can be useful for survival purposes. Materialistic science and engineering assume matter is the primary stuff; maybe the reason psychiatry lags behind is because it doesn't use an idealist model. 

This discussion reminds of doing imaginary numbers in maths and electronics: you introduce a non-existent term into the equations, follow through with the algebra and the imaginary parts cancel out at the end, leaving you with an elegant solution to a real-world problem.