Did you recently discover the idea of epistemology or does your line of questioning have a purpose?
The OP suggested “The engineering-focused materialist way of looking at stuff like this makes my head and heart hurt.”
Therefore excluding “materialist way of looking at stuff” from the question of social theory
I have still yet to hear any elucidation with any type of philosophical rigor of why about the questions of humanity should exclude materialist lenses
Further, at no point was there a epistemological foundation laid for the claim that consciousness is the foundation apriori from materialism
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The OP suggested “The engineering-focused materialist way of looking at stuff like this makes my head and heart hurt.”
Therefore excluding “materialist way of looking at stuff” from the question of social theory
I have still yet to hear any elucidation with any type of philosophical rigor of why about the questions of humanity should exclude materialist lenses
Further, at no point was there a epistemological foundation laid for the claim that consciousness is the foundation apriori from materialism