Dreams are proof that mind is the primary reality. If it's baffling why lifeless, mindless atoms should come together to form mind and life, there's no reason at all why such atoms should then dream and fantasise! What possible function is served by dreams and fantasies in relation to material things?

In the material view of things, how would a non-dreamer be in anyway disadvantaged compared with dreamers? Similarly, how is a human "zombie" - a person who can do everything a conscious person can do without being conscious - in any way at a Darwinian disadvantage in comparison with conscious humans? In other words, can Darwinism plausibly account for the evolution of dreams and consciousness if these provide no evolutionary advantage whatsoever?

How can a materialist process give rise to phenomena that serve no conceivable material function? If free will is impossible - which is the case in scientific materialism where all processes are subject to rigid, inescapable scientific laws - then what's the point of humans imagining that they are free, and how did such an improbable and unnecessary delusion evolve in the first place?

but animals also dream.

does this mean that they also have free will?

dreams are best regarded as side effects of a complex neural net. and since complex neural nets have evolutionary advantage, dreams are also indispensable.

How the Bleep..........

I think the problem people have with materialism and existentialism is the gloomy nihilism it posits; as a side effect.

Some just cannot handle the deep shit that we're just randomly moving clumps of atoms that grows, lives, dances even spawning another random mesh of cells.

And that when we die; it's game over.

Same to the OP.

Dreams are just a function of random neurons overload; your brain relieving the event(s) that happened that day, that month, Years ago sometimes sef.

There's nothing special to it.

Even animals dream.

Teempakguy:
but animals also dream.

does this mean that they also have free will?

I think there's a problem here. I'll like to know what YOU mean by free will.

dreams are best regarded as side effects of a complex neural net. and since complex neural nets have evolutionary advantage, dreams are also indispensable.

Mind to tell me why the collection of lifeless, mindless atoms should exhibit life and mind, fantasise and dream?

SirWere:
How the Bleep..........

I think the problem people have with materialism and existentialism is the gloomy nihilism it posits; as a side effect.

Some just cannot handle the deep shit that we're just randomly moving clumps of atoms that grows, lives, dances even spawning another random mesh of cells.

And that when we die; it's game over.

Same to the OP.

Dreams are just a function of random neurons overload; your brain relieving the event(s) that happened that day, that month, Years ago sometimes sef.

There's nothing special to it.

Even animals dream.

Do you believe that you have free will?

joyContraMundum:
I think there's a problem here. I'll like to know what YOU mean by free will.

free will is the apparent ability to make decisions despite external factors.

Mind to tell me why the collection of lifeless, mindless atoms should exhibit life and mind, fantasise and dream?

it is not a collection. it is an intricate organization that took Billions of years.