Behold the “Possibilian” (Think About This)
by Carter PhippsDavid Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine who is searching for a middle place between the dogmatic certainties of both religion and science. Between the New Atheists’ unequivocal rejection of God and traditional religious believers’ embrace of the same, a whole host of other possibilities, according to Eagleman, are getting squeezed out of the picture. He even has a name for the person who occupies that middle place—a possibilian. A possibilian is a person who acknowledges that our understanding of how the universe works is extremely limited and our ignorance truly vast. A possibilian shies away from anything that even hints at dogma or final certainty and allows the tools of science to sort out truth from falsehood. The following talk, taken from TED Houston, is an eloquent call for a spirit of humility and an attitude of exploration as we move toward a deeper understanding of ourselves and the universe.
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