Physicalism or materialism. The idea that everything there is arises from physical matter. If true would mean there is no God or Free Will, no immortal soul either.
Seems to be what most of academia bases their world view on and the frame work in which most Science is done.
Often challenged by Dualism and Idealism but only by a loud fringe minority.
I’ve heard pan-psychicism is proving quite the challenge, but I hear that from people who believe crystals can cure autism
I hear that “Oh actually the science is moving away from materialism” as well, but that seems to be more crystal talk as well.
So lemme ask science instead of google.
Any reason to doubt physicalism? Is there anything in science that says “Huh well that seems to not have any basis in the physical at all and yet it exists”
Edit: I have heard of the Essentia Foundation and Bernado Kastrup but since it’s endorsed by Deepak Chopra I’m not sure I can trust it
Science explains the strong nuclear force. We have a fair understanding of how it works. Why is there a strong nuclear force? Why is the Planck length the size it is? Science can’t answer those kinds of questions, nor what is good or evil, or if they even exist outside of the hearts of man. The best Science can give for those questions is “because”. And philosophers? Well, they can’t give firm answers, either, certainly no more solid than “listen to the science,” but that’s mostly because a lot of those kind of questions don’t really have answers. That we know of, anyway, and some people find that hard so they fall back on the answers they do have, and say “listen to the science.”