David Eagleman

We just don't know enough to say that.

That may well be the case.

We just don't know enough to pretend

That science has it all figured out.

And so I call myself a possibillion.

And that means I'm interested in the possibility space.

In other words, this is the scientific temperament is saying, what could be going on here?

How did we get here?

What is our purpose here?

If anything, what is happening around here?

And the best way to tackle that is with the tools of science, which means anything gets to be on the table at first, and then we use the tools of science to rule out particular things, like that the Earth is 6,000 years old.

And we use the tools of science to open up new folds in the possibility space that we

hadn't even thought of before.

But the idea is the scientific temperament always allows lots of hypotheses on the table.

And then we gather evidence to weigh in favor of some of those and, you know, and against others.

And that's what I think we should be doing.

That's what I call possibilianism.

And I actually presented this

in a TEDx talk many years ago.

And I got hundreds of emails right afterwards from people saying, hey, I think I'm a possibility in two.