Physical Is Meaningless

By Leo Gura - June 9, 2025

The word “physical”, as used by scientists and philosophers, is completely meaningless. There is no difference between anything physical and anything non-physical. To say that you are a physicalist, or that you believe only physical things exist, is to say nothing at all. All things are non-physical. Physicality is just a confusion of the mind. All things are Consciousness, all things are spirit. A brick wall is spirit. A digital virtual reality world is spirit. A number is spirit. An idea is spirit. A brick wall is no more physical than an idea. There is no such thing as a class of physical things and a class of non-physical things. Because all classes are imaginary. There’s no such thing as classes. “Physical” is just an empty class.

Same goes for the word “material”. Material is a perfectly meaningless word used by ontological fools who think they are saying something meaningful by calling things material. Material means nothing. A brick wall is as immaterial as a ghost. Materialism and physicalism is not even worth debunking because they have zero ontological content. These are just empty confusions of unserious minds. To claim that everything real is material or physical has as much substance as saying that everything is a unicorn. You can say it, you can even believe it, but it means nothing. Whatever a brick wall is, a video game world is, a ghost is, a dream is. To think these thing are different is just ontological cluelessness. Just because it’s said by credentialed people doesn’t make it any less clueless.

Don’t you see? Anything that science discovers in the future that we today consider nonphysical, it will just reclassify as physical. Because “physical” is just a proxy concept that clueless scientists use to mean true. If science ever discovers a ghost, it will just call ghosts physical. And if science every discovers God, science will call God physical. Science simply calls things “physical” once enough people agree it is true. Science simply calls things “scientific” once enough people believe in it. There’s nothing more to it.

Is “science” physical or non-physical? Material or immaterial? Is the category “physical” itself physical or nonphysical? See how quickly the categories defeat themselves and fall part? You can easily deconstruct any attempt to distinguish physical from non-physical things because by science’s own definitions the mental process of doing science will fall into the category of the non-physical. On the one hand science wants to claim that only physical things are real, but on the other hand science cannot escape the fact that all of science is just a mental process, which is non-physical and therefore unreal. So if physicalism is true, science is unreal. If science is unreal physics is unreal.

Here’s the key insight: The category “physical” is not itself physical! It’s metaphysical. This one fact destroys any possibility of grounding science, or science ever being complete. Science cannot be complete because it cannot ground any of it own categories. This one example demonstrates why metaphysics is more fundamental than science. Metaphysics can never be done away with. You can’t just “shut up and calculate” your way out of this.

“Physical”, “material”, “scientific” — these are empty word games that the mind uses to keep itself from realizing that everything is Spirit. Spirit dawns when you realize that all categorizations of Being are illusory. Spirit is what remains — Undefined Reality. Spirit is not a category! Spirit is meta, spirit is when you realize that Being is uncategorizable. Spirit is Null. Spirit dawns when you finally realize that everything is nothing.

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