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
But we cannot believe anything without evidence
You can believe without evidence, belief is an internal process, that can be justified by evidences (that are external) or by other internal processes.
You can have a religion, spiritual beliefs and etc. If that’s make you comfortable and integrates you in a commununity, great! Even better if your community helps outsiders.
What you should not do is expect others to held your beliefs without evidence, or impose into others views that can not be validated by evidence.
But neither can you discredit anything without evidence. The basis of science is falsifiability. That is, we have to be able to prove it wrong.
Hitchen’s Razor says otherwise.
You spend all day believing things without evidence otherwise you would not be able to go about your daily life. The demand for evidence comes after disbelief or sketpicism and not before it.