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
Umm, I thought there was the concept of antimatter. No?
In the sense philosophers mean it, that’s still material. A visible chunk wouldn’t even look or act different until you graze a few atoms and explode.
I don’t really understand what OP is going for here to be honest.
There’s plenty of things you can’t see but only see the effects of in the universe. Whatever the qualifying thing is I guess needs to sit outside of the universe entirely to qualify, but like some branches of physics and math are talking about things such as higher dimensions and the potential that the universe is a simulation of some sort. But I’m sure that doesn’t count either. I guess it has to not be observable nor reasoned around or something. 🤷
Sure, Materialism is slippery to define. OP gave the counterexamples of Dualism and Idealism, though, so you can just go off of those. Most people still believe in Dualism, even.