It should have been clear from my statements in bold that I do not agree that matter gives rise to nonmatter, or that thought is matter, or anything of the sort. (Ordinary matter is somehow realted to life in a way which I don't understand. I can take ibuprofen if I have a backache, but I don't pretend to understand what really happens WRT pain.)
The only way a materialist could try to justify his position would be to claim that
1) things that were beyond his understanding are matter, but he doesn't know what they are (and I certainly would not know), or
2) He simply claims that life is composed of the same stuff that ordinary nonliving things are made of. That position seems both counterintuitive and intellectually lazy to me.
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