When considering the nature of reality, I hold a metaphysical account based on physicalism. Physicalism is the idea that everything in reality is physical in some form or another and that all events can be understood in terms of their physical properties. This view holds that only things which are tangible, observable, and measurable exist within our material universe. Therefore, for something to be considered real it must have an observable effect on the physical world around us. It also implies that consciousness exists as a result of particular configurations of neural processes within our brain rather than being something separate from it.

The basis of my views lies in scientific rationalism; to accept something as true one needs to be able to verify it through empirical evidence and logical analysis. With this mode of thinking I believe we can effectively explain phenomena such as consciousness, free will and morality by looking at them from a purely materialist perspective rooted in neuroscience and evolutionary biology. It is likely that consciousness arises out of complex interactions between neurons which then creates what appears to us as thought or feeling but without any sort of underlying supernatural force behind these processes; instead they are simply emergent properties governed by natural laws like any other phenomenon. The same follows for concepts such as morality – while certain behaviors may seem immoral when judged from an emotional standpoint there isn’t necessarily any actual “right or wrong” existing outside the context of human opinion about them (i.e., moral relativism).