not to change the subject, but
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possibly, a challenge indeed, but we used to think a lot of things were immaterial, er, extra physical, like gravity, light, air even, let alone love and pain, but we now consider gravity a field, light a waveicle, air a mixture of gases, and love and pain chemical in the body
thats not to say that just because the history of science is pretty much a chronology of the demystifying and unspiritualizing of the phenomenons around us, that the mind/brain is next, that it will inevitably show to be nothing more than physical matter, there is no guarantee that either dualism or physicsim will ever be proved the winner
but i think its equally challenging to prove the opposite, that the concepts in our heads are weightless, so to speak
i mean, it is "common sense" that altruism, love, artistic expression, the number 5, first-person perspective, etc... are all something other than matter, not reducible, but i dont know, sure it take faith to believe in the non common sense world of quantum and string theory and memetics, but hmmm...