Thoughts are not of material matter

You have decided where philosophy is stuck, and where it should be. I don’t know why you think you get to do that. Are you saying nothing was accomplished between the time of Descartes and the time of Russell?

Not sure if this clip will come up for. I couldn’t find another way to get to it.

Why is there something rather than nothing? Is that a valid question? Does it have potential to inform us of anything if we try to answer it? What is a brute fact? What is worth asking? You’ve skipped all of that and decided some feeling you have is the correct starting point.