They created epic, abstract visions of freedom, space, and of the very physical matter of paint and canvas, that brought the leadership of modern art across the Atlantic.
Whatever our subjective sense of self is, let's assume it arises from the operation of the physical matter of the brain.
"Mind" includes "matter," especially when you consider that the physical "matter" of the brain plays a major role in mindset changes.
Like James Baldwin's "Go Tell It on the Mountain" — or, to take a more recent example, like Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Between the World and Me" — "Moonlight" dwells on the dignity, beauty and terrible vulnerability of black bodies, on the existential and physical matter of black lives.
And all those guys in their Woolrich parkas and plaid flannel, well, maybe their dreams are of working with the hard, physical matter of the world, rather than the e-stuff and iThings of our virtual age.
The most wonderful quality about diamonds is that they are one of the only types of physical matter on this earth that do not wear and tear.
With Street View, Google has brought us as close as we could possibly get to teleportation – without the actual physical matter transference, of course.
To the materialist Cārvākas, on the other hand, this world is real and it is composed of physical matter, consciousness is an emergent property of matter and self is nothing but conscious material body.
A bass line as tangible as a body, reminding us of the riddle of physical matter.
Another reads, "Trees are a recording of light, light turned into carbon through photosynthesis -- the transformation of light into dark physical matter -- an architecture of inky black darkness, growing towards the source".
