Deep Psychology · Ross Edwards

Is The World Physical?

·1 hr 4 min·5 clips
Ross Edwards points out that dreams feel completely physical, questioning what physicality really means.
Host Ross Edwards explores the philosophical question 'Is the world physical?' by critiquing the materialistic paradigm with arguments about the unprovable external world, atomic emptiness, and dream reality, while also acknowledging the practical utility and experiential reality of physical behavior. He concludes that physicality is a self-referential concept known only through direct experience.

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A patient challenge to the idea that the world is only matter.

Ross Edwards builds the episode around a plain but stubborn question: what does it mean to call the world physical? He draws on familiar examples such as pens and water, then pushes at the materialist view that matter alone explains reality.

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If you keep asking what "physical" really means, this will give you plenty to chew on.

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