Physicalist Supremacism

The belief that physicalism—the view that everything that exists is physical (or supervenes on the physical)—is the supreme metaphysical truth, superior to any form of dualism, idealism, or emergentism. The physicalist supremacist dismisses mental causation, consciousness, and intentionality as either illusions or “nothing but” physical processes, often without engaging with the arguments against reduction. They treat physicalism as the default for any educated person and view non‑physicalists as confused or unscientific.

Example: “He insisted that love was ‘just neurotransmitters’ and that any other view was unscientific—physicalist supremacism, reducing human experience to its physical correlates.”

Physicalist Supremacism by Dumu The Void April 18, 2026