Other items by this bombastic writer include
“The World is a Computer Simulation in the
Minds of Robotic Overlords.” Consume at your peril.
Scrooge was a materialist. For him all that exists is the physical world, thus he attributed Marley's visitation to a bit of bad meat.
Transhumanists like Bostrom ascribe to the Hindu pantheist creed that the physical world is an illusion because 'reality' is an energy field, or quantum void.