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Magic, Matter and Qualia

Book 20 - The God Series

Magic illusions are all about misdirection: making sure that the audience is looking away from what's really going on. For humanity, both religious faith and scientific materialism misdirect us away from truth and reality.

Magicians claim to pull rabbits out of empty hats. The God of Abraham pulls a whole universe out of nothing whatsoever, while scientific materialism performs the greatest magic trick of all by abolishing God and pulling the entirety of existence out of its opposite - non-existence - through nothing other than a random accident, with no conceivable explanation or sufficient reason.

Scientific materialism puts all magicians to shame. It manages to magic life out of lifeless atoms, and mind out of mindless atoms. That's some trick!

Table of contents

  • The Magic of Qualia
  • The Impossibility
  • Quantia and Qualia
  • The Mathematical Universe
  • The Old Days
  • Atheism
  • The Unholy Trinity
  • Jesus Christ
  • Enlightenment
  • The Direction of the Pyramid
  • The End of Philosophy?
  • Sin
  • Tabula Rasa
  • The Unconscious Mind
  • Unnatural Unselection
  • The Hare Krishnas
  • Common Sense Perception (Misperception)
  • TV and Cinema
  • The Atomists’ Soul
  • Esse is Percipi
  • Berkeley’s Philosophy
  • The Dream Key
  • The False Prophets
  • The Cosmic Hologram
  • Hell?
  • The Life Mystery
  • Retardation
  • Dimensional and Dimensionless Mathematics
  • Immortality versus Reproduction
  • The Oversoul
  • The HyperSoul
  • Noumenal Idealism
  • Modern Jacobinism
  • The New Science
  • Schopenhauer and the Power of Music
  • Abracadabra
  • The Magus
  • Mirror Talking
  • Dreamers Amongst the Awaking
  • The Discernment of Spirits
  • Idealism and God
  • The SS and Jihad
  • The Singularity
  • The Phantoms
  • Conclusion