(2017-11-07, 01:57 PM)Steve001 Wrote: All events are physical. I'll define what I mean. Any event that can be measured, experienced in the broadest sense is physical. Ghosts, spirits, non-local consciousness and consciousness, qualia.... and anything that interacts with the quantum and classical realities.What you have expressed is perfectly sensible, at a general level. However, if we use the terms of science it quickly falls apart. First - physicalness is not a measurable variable in science. And Physicalism is a Metaphysical worldview.
You are projecting you're own misgivings perhaps? It's not fear. Here's why. If everything Karmarling, Tim, DavidB, Koons... turns out to be true then I've gained so much. If it's not I've lost nothing. Fear ain't part of the calculation I assure you.
Measurable items in Materials Science and Physics are called empirical. In physics: mass and force lead the list of empirical variables. SI units are the list of empirical values that describe measurements in Physics and the Material Sciences.
Science addresses non-physical variables, and pretending that they are not real, is pretty weird in the modern day. If you want to measure channel capacity and its derivative measurement: bandwidth - you need to address the logical coding of the information.
There are logical events and structures in science. QM addresses probability, context and detected/not detected as fundamental states beyond SI units of measure. Logic is non-physical, as is coding, information, virtual photons and future probability for things that have not happened materially. There is nothing empirical to measure in the past or in the future. Science's reach has gone beyond where it was in 1899. Be open to it.