The Material Mind: A Writer's Philosophical Journal is a piecemeal collection, with an explanatory introduction, of the thoughts of an elderly writer who has abandoned his art of fiction late in life for the modern realities of metaphysics and epistemology. He shares his applications of a lifetime of thought, reading, questioning, and searches for beauty and meaning in journal form. Abandoning fiction has left him with the conclusions of The Material Mind, a non-spiritual, reality-based look at the view of mind and reality as substance. It is the work of a long life of pondering what is and applying his conclusions to what the nature of our mind is and how it is best applied to how we exist.

Carl Reader trained as a journalist and worked in that capacity for over thirty years. He's published numerous works of fiction on the internet. He is also a nature photographer and Youtuber. He is as old as the moon.