Apparently, the (conceptual, so of no relevance to the practice of actualism) issue seems to reside in the equation: “physical=actual”. Allow me to take a swing at it lol, since I’ve already written a quick post 
‘Actual’ is defined experientially. The actual world is the world as it is experienced in a PCE or in Actual Freedom. That’s it. So… thoughts are there, but feelings are not. Therefore thoughts are actual, and feelings aren’t. Here you go. Easy.
As for what ‘physical’ is, personally I’m happy to defer to (and follow) science on that one. Since determining and understanding this is precisely science’s job. This understanding is incomplete, and interpretations galore, so opinions can be freely made unless proven otherwise. Whatever one’s understanding, or opinion, on e.g. what ‘matter’ and ‘energy’ are, does not infringe on what is experienced as ‘actual’. And why should it? For all we know, the ultimate ‘nature’ (physis) of the universe might be a quantum hypergraph, a 8-dimentional object, whatever.
Actual Freedom is about “being the universe’s experience of itself as a human being”. As a human being. And what do human beings experience? Colors, where there’s only wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation; sounds, where there’s only movement of air molecules; etc. Colors and sounds are actual, but not ‘physical’, unless one wants to consider that they appear as such when ‘coded’ by some sort of brain, and that such brain is… wait for it… part of the physical universe.
Thoughts… same. Only neurons firing… well not even that, but only molecules interacting (ions going through cell membranes etc.)… or not even that, but only excitations in quantum fields…
“Being the universe’s experience of itself as a human being”… Human beings experience thought. Thoughts are actual, yet not ‘physical’ as such.
So what about feelings, might you say? Well the “being the universe’s experience of itself” part is what determines that not any human being’s experience will do, but only that of a PCE/Actual Freedom, again for experiential reasons, “being the universe’s experience of itself” being the actual experience of Actual Freedom.
And it’s awesome 
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