One form of scientific materialism is that matter is the essence of existence. In that view, we study matter because we want to study what is real, not imaginary things. This view is not in opposition to spirituality because our thoughts, our mind, etc. are just an expression of the essence of existence, whether we call it matter is irrelevant.
However, a stronger form of scientific materialism insist on an interpretation of matter in which our thoughts and our mind cannot participate in any fundamental laws like the ones we have in chemistry, biology, etc. In this view, the study of the mind and thoughts is only useful to help pathological cases like in psychology.
Before you say that the mind and our thoughts are not reliable enough to participate in fundamental laws, consider the fact that some forms of mediation has been shown to have *systematic* effects on our body and even on our environment.
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