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Leading A Human Life Is A Full-time Occupation, To Which Everyone Devotes Decades Of Intense Concern.

Materialism Is Incomplete Even As A Theory Of The Physical World, Since The Physical World Includes Conscious Organisms Among Its Most Striking Occupants.

Once We Have Taken The Backward Step To An Abstract View Of Our Whole System Of Beliefs, Evidence, And Justification, And Seen That It Works Only, Despite Its Pretensions, By Taking The World Largely For Granted, We Are Not In A Position To Contrast All These Appearances With An Alternative Reality. We Cannot Shed Our Ordinary Responses, And If We Could It Would Leave Us With No Means Of Conceiving A Reality Of Any Kind.

Life May Be Not Only Meaningless But Absurd.

Everything, Living Or Not, Is Constituted From Elements Having A Nature That Is Both Physical And Nonphysical - That Is, Capable Of Combining Into Mental Wholes. So This Reductive Account Can Also Be Described As A Form Of Panpsychism: All The Elements Of The Physical World Are Also Mental.