Materialist Reductionism
Metaphysical Ground
🦠 Necrocene
🔮 Sustainability Theorems
A cross-domain analysis of Political, Economic, Cultural, and Ecological theories.
Political Theory
Mechanistic Governance
Economic Theory
Resource Computation
Cultural Theory
Epiphenomenal Culture
Ecological Theory
Dead Nature
The Dead Universe: The foundational belief that consciousness is an accidental byproduct of matter, rendering the universe fundamentally meaningless and mechanical.
📑 Observations
Establishing a triage containing observations of social experience.
🪞 Self-Enquiry
Do my daily actions—my consumption, my voting, my work—reinforce a system that treats living beings as resources and the Earth as inventory, making me complicit in my own spiritual depletion?
🩺 Diagnosis Questions
1. Does the system treat consciousness as a problem to be solved rather than a reality to be embraced?
2. Are qualitative experiences reduced to quantitative data?
3. Is meaning treated as a subjective illusion?
Related Variables
- Reductionist scientific paradigm dominance
- Spiritual/meaning crisis prevalence
- Treatment of animals/nature as insentient
"We are forced to make these difficult decisions because of their barbaric nature."
🩻 Targeted Organ
The Soul
The Capacity to Wonder
🧾 Rationale
To eliminate moral responsibility by framing Them as less than fully human.
💉 Extraction/Cultivation
Systematic dehumanization in media and political rhetoric ("human animals," "terrorist infrastructure").
😷 Defense/Propagation
Scientism: Framing the conflict as a technical security problem rather than a moral crisis.
❌ Tetrad Analysis
- Object of Perception: Reality / The Universe
- ENHANCES: Predictive control over physical systems; quantifiable efficiency; instrumental reason
- OBSOLESCES: Subjective experience (qualia); intrinsic meaning; spirituality; consciousness as fundamental
- RETRIEVES: Pre-Socratic atomism; brutalist "honesty" that rejects superstition
- REVERSES INTO: Spiritual vacuum fueling irrationality and conspiracy theories; the enhanced control flips into profound loss of self-control and agency
📝 Partial Diagnosis
Metaphysical Nihilism - The universe is ultimately dead matter, making exploitation "rational" and meaning a personal fiction
⚗️ Research Repository
🔮 Engagement Circle
🧊 Life Course
🎓 Case Study
Behavioral Economics
How human decisions are reduced to algorithmic patterns and manipulated for profit. Exemplifies operationalizing the materialist view of humans. It reduces human decision-making to predictable algorithmic patterns that can be manipulated for efficiency or profit. This aligns with Necrocene's "Homo Economicus" and the reduction of human experience to data points
📚 Literature
"Consciousness Explained" by Daniel Dennett (1991)
Provides the philosophical bedrock for the Necrocene. Dennett argues consciousness is an illusion produced by material processes, perfectly justifying a worldview where only measurable, physical things are "real." This is the intellectual basis for treating the world as dead inventory
