[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

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[Jos]
> can you outline how you avoid the charge of solipsism, whilst still having "man" as the only agent
> capable of consciousness.

Solipsism is the view that one's own consciousness is the only consciousness there is & oneself "the only agent capable of consciousness".  The view that (hu)man consciousness is the only consciousness & that  humans are the only agents capable of consciousness, does NOT entail there is only one such human (i.e., solipsism).
Craig