Suppose you ask me what is important in life, and I will say self-preservation. But which is the self I preserve, the physical or non-physical self?

Instead of worrying about the non-physical self I think we most definitely feel the physical self is more important. By not preserving the physical self we have no guarantee of the non-physical one either. When I am in harm’s way I move out of its path. Simple as that. Thoughts of harm’s way will not literally kill me the way physical harm’s way will.

We must take seriously materialism may be real, and non-materialism or immaterialism may be unreal. If we want to have our cake and eat it too like dualism then we must justify why we need the immaterial entity to begin with.