The funny part being that they write it as if the ideas are preposterous. Putting religion at the very basis of the operation of the universe is one hell of a drug.
EDIT: Already made it a comment, but I feel it's important before people get that idea that these people are necessarily our enemies.
People write/read takes like this and come to radically different conclusions due to their different base axioms of human experience. For the target readership of catholicculture.org, they are ones that are trying to understand the universe, with the base assumption being the existence of a Christian god. Many an apologetic has attempted to synthesize the real observable world with a just, righteous god. Regardless of their flawed logics, they are at least interested in taking a holistic approach to the human experience rather than an individual, capitalist, exploitative experience. As someone who as a child dove into the catholic theological worldview, desperate for meaning in this clearly meaning deprived society, these people can be radicalized, and are capable of changing their basis of thought. It takes real effort and patience, but they are much more likely to be a devoted comrade to the human liberatory unification experience than a bourgeois hedonistic individualist, who only cares for themselves and the people closest to them, who would rather not ponder their experience let alone the collective human experience, but rather live their own lives in pursuit of illusory happiness in isolation.
Yes, people have created mathamatical models for it, including, as I've said, some of the most influential physicists of the 20th Century.
Also, basically every theory we take for granted now was considered unorthodox at some point.
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I don't really follow. The theory postulates that mind is inherent in matter, and that what we experience as conciousness is at least partly a byproduct of that. Why does that make us extra special, seems like it makes us less special.
Why does this seem more reasonable to you than the conciousness you experience constantly is an illusion?
Is string theory serious? Because it's a competitor and postulates there are like 11 dimensions or something that we can't see. Seems pretty out there too.
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Like, you have said multiple things about this theory that are directly contradictory to what the theory postulates.
Are you talking about descarte's mind body dualism? This theory is contradictory to that.