materialist

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Christof Koch, a leading consciousness researcher and primary source in Pollan’s book, began his career as a strict materialist, believing everything could be explained using the standard scientific worldview.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

I became a child of the Enlightenment, a materialist, confident the alternatives amounted to superstition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Rastafari reject materialist values and often practice a strict oneness with nature.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2024

If the "Sex and the City" universe is a fantasia of materialist gloss tethered to reality by genuine truths, then the personifications of this idea should maintain a crumb of constancy.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2023

But we have no documents from the Natufian culture, so when dealing with ancient periods the materialist school reigns supreme.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari