Why Materialism is a Flatlander Philosophy

Alex Vikoulov
6 min readFeb 15, 2021

“The only reality is mind and observations but observations are not of things. To see the Universe as it really is, we must abandon our tendency to conceptualize observations as things. The Universe is immaterial, mental and spiritual. Live and enjoy!” — Richard Conn Henry

While synthetizing science and metaphysics, evolutionary cybernetics is a new field of study that predicts a variety of aspects of our civilizational development, notably a phase transition of uploaded cyberhumanity by becoming one Global Mind. In my online interactions, I’m oftentimes confronted with die-hard materialists or otherwise ardent empiricists who demand “hard evidence” for my claims as an evolutionary cyberneticist, so here’s a brief discourse on intellectual progress of our species.

From quantum gravity to dark matter, string theory to parallel universes, many scientific theories and hypotheses lack hard evidence. “Fashion” in science, i.e., a scientific narrative in vogue, favors a certain paradigm which later unavoidably is swept under the rug. Current science can only explain a meager 4% of the visible universe, the rest is conveniently labeled the “Dark Universe” — dark matter and…

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Alex Vikoulov

Futurist, Evolutionary Cyberneticist, Philosopher of Mind, Best-Selling Author, Filmmaker