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’s either deterministic or chaotic. There’s no in-between.
Free will and consciousness are merely illusions caused by the way our brains work.
Overtuned pattern recognition machines recognising spurious patterns in themselves.
On a low level, our brains can’t really understand that correlation doesn’t imply causation. It’s an evolutionary imperative: if we don’t see a tiger where there isn’t one we might fail to see one when it’s really there, and therefore fail to pass on our less overtuned pattern recognition genes.
So we end up seeing tigers in the sky, and free will in our actions, and consciousness in our thoughts.