Re neuroplasticity, one of the field’s pioneers, UCLA research psychiatrist Jeffrey M. Schwartz wrote, “I propose that the time has come for science to confront serious implications of the fact that…the exertion of willful effort generates a physical force [emphasis in original] that has the power to change how the brain works and even its physical structure.” That was written 20 years ago in his The Mind and the Brain. NP is one of the areas where we witness thought evincing “physical force” necessarily complicating-- and expanding--our definitions. Nothing in your remarks alters that. You raise a couple of sound points—and I want to meaningfully debate materialist thinkers--but these are overshadowed when you default to what I describe in the article: “philosophical materialism defends its worldview less by repetition and validation of its premises (the gold-standard of science) but, largely, by polemic, catechism, and causticism.”