Still with me? The problem with “matter-for humans” exposes a deeper problem, that matter is matter-for anything. In other words, matter isn't what it's cracked up to be, some kind of real substrate of things that emerges as those things. It's part of the as-structure, ontologically secondary to objects.
“Matter” is correlationist in that it's always correlated to some entity. Matter is the “out-of-which-it's-built” of an object. It is the object's past, or a past object. When you study it directly, it ceases to be matter.
This is one big reason why if you're an eliminationist, if you don't stop at some metaphysical substrate such as prime matter, you end up with equations in the void—you end up, pretty much, with idealism.
Since correlationism is hostile to the idea of dogmatic metaphysics, it is at risk of ending up with nothingness, if it goes the materialist route.
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