Contrary to Kant, mind is not better than matter, matter takes on the form it does from looking at it with our material minds. Matter is there whether we see it or not, even if we see it with our “limited” senses. In any case, mind is also matter. Is this believed by faith alone?
Neuroscience has shown that that all our feelings and emotions have an exact physical/material source or reaction in the brain. A "soul" would be, or is, a part of the material body, for example, an activating will-spirit within life essentially defining "life" is material.
When I turn the old epistemological saying around and say, I am therefore I think, this implies that matter exists or I would not be thinking about it, or with it. If anything matter is therefore “better” than mind.
Life is the existential experience of matter, categories like mind come later. Theological Materialism rests on this base: matter-with-mind evolves to Supermatter-with-Supermind, or Godhood. There is no duality between "God" and matter because there is no "spiritual," but there is supermaterial which matter can evolve to become, defined as Godhood.
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