Strongest Arguments In Favor Of Materialism In Research

1) In order for me to exist tomorrow, the material thing that I am made of must exist tomorrow.

2) The strongest argument in favor of materialism is simply that we are where our physical body is. That is, simple logic would dictate that if your physical body was sitting in a chair, you would be sitting in a chair. Imagining the opposite, it would be absurd to insist that an entity that takes up no space and has no physical location exist. For example, when we are young we often create invisible imaginary friends who we enjoy to play and hangout with. Like an immaterial soul, our imaginary friends don’t take up space and have no exact location. In both cases, an argument can be made that they are real, but ultimately we all come to the understanding that because our imaginary friends don’t have a physical form, they are in fact imaginary. By the same rationale that allows us to decide imaginary

This argument is derived from the law of the conservation of energy which states that in a closed system, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. Translating that to this case, the conservation of energy insists that in order to explain our neurons firing, or our bodies moving, there must be a physical cause that initiates it.

3) The most challenging argument that can be made against materialism, is the problem of physical change. This argument points out that at any given moment our physical body is changing whether it’s skin cells falling off, new cells being made or old cells deteriorating. Additionally it argues that it can’t be true that two physical things can be the same thing while not having identical parts. Because materialism states that we are only our material self, this argument makes plausible that if it were true, we would be a new person every time our material make up