One mechanism is choice.  The free will choice to remain strong and overcome ailment.  I know of this process.


Material things are things that exist independent of perception.  The choice to get better is not a material entity, it does not and cannot exist independently of perception.  The choice to get better is not material and therefore cannot be attributed to materialism.

I don't think this lime of inquiry is going to help your argument much.


But the materialist worldview has no hope of demonstrating that logic has it's ultimate source in material either.  You are loosing ground.


You presume that consciousness requires a material brain but we have no way to prove or disprove this given current evidence. Truth of course seems not to require material.  Without material there is still truth about whatever exists or does not even if there is nothing or nobody to perceive it.  You might say, "what good is it?"  but that is a different question.

But there are things and conditions that suggest this material world is insufficient to explain the mind and conciseness and logic and reason.

In your view reason and logic is a consequence of the mind which in your view is entirely contained by the physical brain and therefore subjeject to genetics which is in your view constantly undergoing the process of evolutionary change.  This change is the only explanation you have for the brain in the first place and therefore the mind is in the constant process of change.  By your worldview therefore anything contained by the brain is also subject to change.  There is nothing in your worldview that would fix logic and reason to be constant and universally true.  Therefore logic and reason is incoherent in your view because the laws of logic are subject to change.  Remember, Natural Selection only preserves characteristics that are advantageous at the particular time.  There is nothing in this model that constrains anything to remain constant ever.

By this example materialism is insufficient.  On the otherhand, a transcending agent who provided the laws of physics and the laws of logic and reason and morality does provide the structure to maintain these as constants.  Furthermore there is substantial evidence that such an agent exists.  Big Bang cosmology requires an extremely powerful transcending cause for this universe.  The fine tuned nature of the physical laws is evidence that this cause is precise and unimaginably intelligent.

Well materialism certainly is flawed and indeed that is why I don't find it convincing.