Maybe materialism is fundamentally wrong. I mean, I think there are insurmountable logical problems with materialism, and that it can’t explain things like morality. And there ARE experiential and scientific reasons to question the fundamental material nature of humans.
Koch outlines three major areas where current understanding struggles. First is the challenge of fully reducing conscious experience to physical processes in the brain. Second is the difficulty modern physics faces when trying to define what is truly “real.” Third is the persistence of unusual experiences – including near-death experiences, mystical states, and episodes of terminal lucidity – that do not fit neatly within existing scientific explanations.
I think Terminal Lucidity is perhaps the hardest to explain with materialism. But it happens enough to have a name and to be widely accepted as a phenomenon.