I’d say that something-like-materialism feels like the most consistent and likely explanation. Sure we could assume that maybe, despite all appearances, there isn’t a real world of matter out there after all… but given that we do assume such a world for pretty much everything else we do, it would seem like an unjustifiably privileged hypothesis to assume anything else.
There’s a pretty strong materialist viewpoint in the original LW sequences, though it’s kinda scattered across a number of posts so I’m not sure which ones in particular I’d recommend (besides the one about privileged hypotheses).
I’d say that something-like-materialism feels like the most consistent and likely explanation. Sure we could assume that maybe, despite all appearances, there isn’t a real world of matter out there after all… but given that we do assume such a world for pretty much everything else we do, it would seem like an unjustifiably privileged hypothesis to assume anything else.
There’s a pretty strong materialist viewpoint in the original LW sequences, though it’s kinda scattered across a number of posts so I’m not sure which ones in particular I’d recommend (besides the one about privileged hypotheses).