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"Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all phenomena, including mental phenomena and consciousness, are the result of material interactions." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism

Many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

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Materialism of that form is silly: energy clearly exists, though it's equivalent to mass in some contexts, and information clearly exists as well, and certain other quantum properties I don't understand properly must exist as well (since "mass" is actually "interaction with the Higgs field", so I assume the necessary properties to generate that interaction must actually exist).

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