very interesting episode, thanks. as someone who’s been flirting with idealism, im curious what lines of argumentation you feel are most compelling when discussing these issues w materialist colleagues? @evanthompson.bsky.social

i’ve heard materialism justified through an appeal to the “historically winning team”, but then how do we get exhaustive quantitative accounts of fundamentally qualitative things? the Qt stuff exists to index Ql regularities, so idk how the map can ever become the territory