Eliminative Materialism Is Literally Baseless: A Logical Demonstration

Eliminative materialism claims mind-independent matter is fundamental while experience is derivative or illusory. This paper demonstrates this position is baseless: its distinguishing claim lacks evidential foundation. Both eliminativism and Experiential Empiricism succeed by tracking experiential patterns that predict future experience. The eliminativist adds that these patterns correspond to mind-independent material reality, but this claim goes beyond all possible evidence, cannot be verified even in principle, and contributes nothing to explanation or prediction. Through information theory and the Magic Window thought experiment, pure logic shows the externalist claim has no epistemic ground. All work is done by experiential pattern-tracking while the metaphysical claim floats without support.