Consequently, Digby went on to argue, immaterial souls cannot change, and must therefore be immutable and immortal.
Still, the bottom line remains: Belichick's system has proven that the specifics at running back are immaterial and often change on a week-to-week basis.
"Material things have a process of entropy and these immaterial things just change," he adds, comparing physical objects, hardware and analogue media to computer software.
"The change is immaterial, and the unbilled receivables will be collected," Mr. Foshee said.
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If the self is immaterial, how would we notice the successive changes?
The immense complexity of cancer genome is somewhat misleading because most alterations are immaterial to neoplasia and are simply passenger changes.
"Whatever Phil Smith does, he does – it is immaterial to me and I can't change it.
Facebook tells me that the change will see it refuse an immaterial number of ad impressions that earned it negligible amounts of money, so it shouldn't have a significant impact on Facebook's revenue.
If robots took care of most of the material production and menial jobs, work done by humans would fundamentally change its nature by moving towards immaterial needs – such as creativity and belonging.
