[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Arlo previously]
This is simply animism on my part, attributing awareness to some 
object of my experience.

[Micah]
Are you sarcastically implying that magnets have awareness, is that 
your argument? If yes, are they aware of the goodness of Twinkies?

[Arlo]
No sarcasm. I'm wondering why its "animism" for me project 
"awareness" onto a magnet, but "not animism" for me to project it 
onto you? What "proof" do I have that you are any more aware than that magnet?

That you'd ask about magnets and Twinkies appears to show you don't 
really subscribe to the MOQ. The "enjoyment of Twinkies" (a gross 
thought) is a biological level pattern. Magnets are aware only of 
inorganic quality.