>implying man isn't a dumb animal that gained a semblance

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what are you then

>>8749787
a bisexual junky postmodernist

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>>8749780
Materialism is wrong for a couple of reasons.
Foremost, you are considering reality as if it were abject from experience. This is both an ontological error and an empirical error. It is an ontological error because it puts epistemology prior to metaphysics, saying that matter alone exists and that form is superfluous. It is an empirical error because empirically speaking all matter is uniform, and all notions of proximity, qualia, and differentials are not materially present but rather exist only within the mind as some function of entropy to give partition to matter; without it there would be no qualitative difference between 1 cubit and 2 cubit, and by extension no qualitative difference between being and non-being, meaning that for all intents and purposes nothing would exist.
But things do exist.
Therefor, anything which is known is real, and since mental formulations and conceptual knowledge and such are known, then they are also real.
But mental formulations are not material.
>But muh brain electrons n shiet
The fact that consciousness and other mental constructs are the product of the natural operation of unconscious matter does not by necessity mean that those things are themselves unconscious matter, for there is no direct material instantiation of love or of other things in the intellect, which is why in mathematics there is no formula circumscribing love and such things seeing as mathematics is abstraction from matter, further proof that mental constructs are not material despite having existence.
The way in which a thing exists in the mind is different from the way in which it exists materially, and this is causing perpetual incommensurability between conscious things and unconscious matter. Because in conscious things perception is different from being, so that it appears to us as if we are outside of the universe looking in, or perhaps we are a kind of interiority always peering out. In any case, it is plain that we know things that don't exist, which become real in participation of the consciousness of the knower.
This is called the notion of knowledge via connaturality or inclination.
In the same way, we, and all existent things by us, obtain existence by means of participation in the underlying principle of existence which is God.
God is called pure love because his knowing us is a self-imparting act by metaphysical necessity, and in knowing us he brings us into being, and since being is convertible with good all good is from God and all that is created is good ultimately speaking.

>>8750024
There is scientific evidence the prefrontal cortex - which most animals lack - naturally searches and creates meaning

>>8750037
Maybe concioussness is an emergent phenomenon.

Materialism is a framework created by conscious beings as a means to understand themselves and their environment. 'reality' is probably much, much weirder. We're just looking through a keyhole.

>>8750037
What I said in my post precludes what you are getting at in your post.