David Eagleman

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

And it became this worldwide movement.

There were newspapers and articles that people sent me from India, from Uganda, from whatever.

Facebook groups sprang up.

And now, 11 years after this original talk, there's so much activity about possibilityism.

And I'm so...

happy about this because I feel like there wasn't a position that people could take if they happened to feel the way I did about this.

The only thing that was available is to say, okay, either I'm religious and I believe what my parents and my culture told me, or I'm a strict atheist on the other end of the spectrum where I think nothing interesting is going on here.

There's nothing else in the universe for us to understand.

Or you would call yourself an agnostic, which means I don't know.

That's all agnosticism means is not knowing.

But possibilism is a much more active thing of saying, hey, we're going to go out and explore the possibility space and shine a flashlight around this and try to figure out what's going on.

Yeah.

To this day, every time I see religious conflict, it just blows my mind.

I mean, the whole history of Europe over the last 500 years was defined by fights between the Catholics and the Protestants.

I don't mean fights.

I mean killing, like murdering.

And it feels like you look at this stuff and it's so goofy.

And yet, this is the history that we have been surrounded with and still have to deal with in a lot of the world.

I feel like