I agree. The difference is the definition of the environment. Panentheism includes a transcendent mystery within the environment. This is also consistent with Campbell.A materialist might understand that we don't really control ourselves ... that as Alan Watts points out there is not an intrinsic self. That our beliefs are not separate from our environment.
This transcendent mystery is the source of reality. It became the peopled universe.
The source of consciousness , love, beauty, etc. isn't the vibrating atoms, it is the mystery that became the atoms and love and beauty.
From Watt's perspective, what we define as the universe is really an image of part of the mystery. Materialism takes this a step further and only the image is thought to exist. There is no great mystery only gaps in our knowledge.
The problem with this view is that it doesn't due justice to reality. A firefighter saving a child from a burning building is just chemicals. Beethoven is just chemicals. Love and consciousness are just chemicals.
I think the opposite is true. The experience transforms the brain and enhances our ability to experience. This we call learning. The experience of the wonder of the sky makes an astronomer.
In reality we understand very little. Science only works for simple repetitive systems. It is an extremely powerful tool for studying the repetitive part of physical reality, but it has severe limits.
The mystery is everywhere. It is us.
In the 1890s many good physicists concluded that physics was over. Everything was understood. Then came relativity and quantum mechanics.
I think we should learn from history.
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