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
It also depends how you define physical matter.
If it’s something you cam touch, then there definitely is, starting with neutrinos.
If you mean particles we know about, can describe and sort of understand, then there’s dark matter, which is probably particles we don’t know yet, but have several candidates we didn’t manage to confirm or disprove yet. They can only interact by gravitational (and perhaps weak?) force.
If you mean something we know at least something solid about, there’s dark energy, which isn’t absolutely 100% certain that it exists, but is widely accepted.
If you mean something physics doesn’t detect and try to explain, then obviously not.
How is Dark Matter non-physical?
In the sense that it isn’t particles we know about, can describe and sort of understand, as I wrote. Plus you can’t touch it. You didn’t say what you mean by physical, so I tried 4 different definitions I thought you might mean.