Who says the mental has no rules?
Anyway, the question of what fundamentally exists is an ontological question. Materialism is one possible answer. All that fundamentally exists is material objects, and everything else, including mind, society, abstract concepts, etc emerge from that material substrate.
Idealism would be the opposite answer. Everything is mental, and material objects are just ideas presented to the mind.
Everything is mathematical would be another possibility. Or information, perhaps qubits (it from quantum bits).
But maybe aspects of mind and matter are both fundamental to what exists. Or maybe it's some third neutral substance that's neither.
But whatever the case, none of that need involve the supernatural. It can, if one is disposed to think that way. One can say that God created the material world (granted, that leaves God as the something else, but at least the world gets to be entirely material).
Anyway, the question of what fundamentally exists is an ontological question. Materialism is one possible answer. All that fundamentally exists is material objects, and everything else, including mind, society, abstract concepts, etc emerge from that material substrate.
Idealism would be the opposite answer. Everything is mental, and material objects are just ideas presented to the mind.
Everything is mathematical would be another possibility. Or information, perhaps qubits (it from quantum bits).
But maybe aspects of mind and matter are both fundamental to what exists. Or maybe it's some third neutral substance that's neither.
But whatever the case, none of that need involve the supernatural. It can, if one is disposed to think that way. One can say that God created the material world (granted, that leaves God as the something else, but at least the world gets to be entirely material).