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"The barbaric view of reality is mechanistic. It is the easy view of classical science and of common sense. In epistemology mechanism is naive realism, the view that all knowledge is based on unquestionable facts, on apodictically verified truths. In physics mechanism is the view that the universe is clockwork, closed, and entirely predictable on the basis of unchanging laws. In biology, mechanism is the view that all aspects of life, its evolution, our feelings and values, are ultimately explicable in terms of the laws of physics and chemistry."

Okay, what do you have to replace it with?

The cited paragraph is from "On the Foundations of Metaphysics in the Mind-like Background of Physical Reality" by Lothar Schäfer from ETL's post #7.

Essentially, you have 3 choices. Either one of two kinds of monism: the "barbaric" view (mechanistic Atomism) or the Eastern Advaita view of the New Phycisists, occult New Age, Theosophy, Vedanta Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. Or--- the supernatural personal God of creation.

The first two are types of naturalism positing life and mind from either chemicals or psychic energy. As neither kind can account for life and mind from chemicals or energy both are types of nihilism, meaning there is nothing there but delusion.

Only with the 3rd option is there an ultimate source for life and mind.

As you are endowed with will (which options 1 & 2 deny as there is no source for will), the choice is yours to make.