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INFORMATION THEORY AND

THE END OF MATERIALISM

M aterialist philosophy lies at the basis of the theory of evolution.

Materialism rests on the supposition that everything that exists is
matter. According to this philosophy, matter has existed since
eternity, will continue to exist forever, and there is nothing but
matter. In order to provide support for their claim, materialists use a logic
called "reductionism." This is the idea that things which are not observable
can also be explained by material causes.
To make matters clearer, let us take the example of the human mind. It
is evident that the mind cannot be touched or seen. Moreover, it has no
center in the human brain. This situation unavoidably leads us to the
conclusion that mind is a concept beyond matter. Therefore, the being
which we refer to as "I," who thinks, loves, fears, worries, and feels pleasure
or pain, is not a material being in the same way as a sofa, a table or a stone.
Materialists, however, claim that mind is "reducible to matter."
According to the materialist claim, thinking, loving, worrying and all our
mental activities are nothing but chemical reactions taking place between
the atoms in the brain. Loving someone is a chemical reaction in some cells
in our brain, and fear is another. The famous materialist philosopher Karl
Vogt is notorious for his assertion that "the brain secretes thought just as
the liver secretes bile." 377 Bile, however, is matter, whereas there is no
evidence that thought is.
Reductionism is a logical deduction. However, a logical deduction
can be based on solid grounds or on shaky ones. For this reason, the
question we need to ask is: What happens when reductionism is
compared to scientific data?

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