Which came first: matter or spirit?

Why "meta-spirit"? In my interpretation, the spirit is simply described using understandable material terms, given that we are discussing what a spirit is.

Actually, the prefix "meta" is a normal scientific term... In psychology, for example, "meta-memory" means a person's knowledge of their own memory.

In a nutshell, a spirit is a combination of 0 and 1, which is how a computer works. We don't see these combinations when we look at a monitor, but they actually affect everything the computer does.
Similarly, a spirit is not material to the touch, but it is vital.
It seems clear now... So, is a spirit the same as the system of creation/destruction?

The laws of physics are laws because they describe real, existing phenomena that are tangible. No one invented them; they discovered what has always existed.

Perhaps I didn't phrase the question well... I meant the following: the laws of physics are not matter. This is obvious – we certainly can't touch them. (by the way, as Berserk rightly pointed out, relying on one's own perception is also wrong; especially since we cannot perceive many other sources of information – for example, heat, the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, etc.; I'm willing to bet that there are many such sources of information that we don't even know about! By the way, Kant believed that time was not an objective reality, but a property of human consciousness – a human way of perceiving the world.) However, it is still impossible to say that the laws of physics are encoded according to the system of the spirit you described. And where do they fit in the dichotomy of spirit and matter?

By the way, does everything that exists have a spirit? I mean, is it only in humans, or in humans and animals, or also in plants, or maybe even in everything in general – as numerous panpsychists, including AlexeyPunk, assure us?

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Consciousness is always present, and it develops...

Not everyone believes that. For example, the domestic school of psychology, founded by Vygotsky and developed by Leontiev, believes that consciousness exists only in social beings (humans). Personally, I don't agree with their position.

But what cannot be disputed is that if you get hit hard on the head, you will lose consciousness. Again, there is such a mysterious and as yet undiscovered phenomenon as sleep, during which you are not aware of the surrounding world; according to the most popular view in the scientific community, the state of sleep is considered a state of unconsciousness...