Let's not even get into "matter" and modern science which already undermines the notion that things are solid...
Let's just get to the point:
If EVERYTHING in the universe, everything in reality is "matter"... then what does "matter" mean anymore?
It may as well be magic. Harry Potter material. No difference. Because this "matter" exists in nothing.
You are in a building, in a city, in a country, in a continent, on planet Earth, in solar system, itself floating in a galaxy, itself floating in the "universe" ... itself floating in ... what?
Nothing.
At which point you call it matter, I could call it "consciousness" (in the author Bernardo Kastrup's meaning then, as a underlying field to everything), some may call it "god". We can also just call it magic. Poof! Here we are.
Let's just get to the point:
If EVERYTHING in the universe, everything in reality is "matter"... then what does "matter" mean anymore?
It may as well be magic. Harry Potter material. No difference. Because this "matter" exists in nothing.
You are in a building, in a city, in a country, in a continent, on planet Earth, in solar system, itself floating in a galaxy, itself floating in the "universe" ... itself floating in ... what?
Nothing.
At which point you call it matter, I could call it "consciousness" (in the author Bernardo Kastrup's meaning then, as a underlying field to everything), some may call it "god". We can also just call it magic. Poof! Here we are.
PS: Also see
The mental Universe
http://deanradin.com/evidence/Henry2005Nature.pdf
The Physicalist Worldview as Neurotic Ego-Defense Mechanism https://www.instapaper.com/read/811142201