Your asserting something as well. That materialism will suddenly care about something unobservable, and falls fully under spiritualism. Which is contrary to what materialism is at its core. Without that care tech will never develop. Ergo, your assertions are far more grandios than mine, and falls fully under whataboutism fallacies.
you claim there is a dichotomy between spiritualism and materialism, I dismiss this as there is no evidence for it, and posit instead there is knowledge and there is ignorance
Science has already said somethings cannot be observed. Like moments before the big bang because things like physics break down.
Your dichotomy of ignorance and knowledge is also flawed, because ignorance is seen as a negative. I wouldnt call it a dichotomy of spiritualism and materialism. But more of a symbiosis. The dichotomy would be "knowledge" (formed of both materialist and spiritualist) and ignorance
there is you claiming that something is forever unobservable, I'm saying that is nonsense. People thought gravitational waves were unobservable, that they might not exist, we developed a way to observe them.
The key i was pointing is that it would take a massive shift of thinking. Gravity was observable, and so materialists delved into it. Post death would start with unobservable. Which is antimaterialist
The reason we cannot observe before the big bang is not necessarily because physics "breaks down", it's because the way we observe the early universe is through light, and that means that we can only observe from the big bang forward because all possible matter and/or energy was in a singularity.
It doesn't break down. It's just that anything that would have existed before that, including light, would have become part of that singularity again, meaning it no longer has meaning to us in any recognizable way, it's just a big jumble.
Say for example, the theory about the Great Crunch is true. Well, if that is true than there was a universe before ours, and it eventually collapsed on itself. We can't observe this previous universe through light because it all collapsed into a singularity. Thus anything that maybe we could have observed would have also been crushed into that singularity and become unrecognizable.
But what I'm getting at is that the reason we cannot observe anything before the big bang is because to us, essentially nothing existed before it. Anything that may have would have been made just into a jumble by being crushed into a singularity.
But again. This became a perview of the spiritualists as well, as another theory. And tbh until we can know, if ever, it isnt any less valid technically. Because until observable, we never know.
Because without those who simply ascribe things to the unknown or spiritual, products wouldnt be produced to allow scientists the free time to focus on such things that really have little to do with day to day life.
