How to save materialism There are arguments against the existence of mind. I say the brain supports what is called mind. As to matter, it could not create itself; therefore, it emanated from an immaterial existent. In the pre-universe, it may be argued that the first existent was immaterial space with a capacity for becoming actual. Unlike some physicists who say space is made of something, it might not be. Other than immaterial space, all other existents may be matter or matter derived.