Science and Philosophy Offer More for Grief than Religion

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12. Something separate from material? Goodness, I don't know!

Just my opinion based on my own education and experience (or lack thereof) but I don't think it's a matter of some yet undiscovered "spirit molecule" or something along that line. I lean towards understanding everything as consciousness or mind. Debatable words, no doubt, because people hold differing definitions of what consciousness is with many seeing mind as a human phenomenon and everything else driven by automated behaviors and traits. From what I've read, there's the notion of consciousness emerging out of matter and there's the idea of matter emerging out of consciousness. The latter makes more sense to me. So in answer to your question, it's not only baked in the goods, it's the goods themselves.

A book I like that I think explains this well is by Bernardo Kastrup, "Why Materialism is Baloney" (link: Bernardo Kastrup, "Why Materialism is Baloney"). Fun read if you're into that sort of thing.