David Eagleman

Some of us do.

Yeah.

My general feeling on it is the world is full of mystery.

The amount of stuff we know in science and have written down in big fat textbooks is a tiny fraction of what's going on out there.

Actually, I wrote an article in Discover Magazine back in 2004 called 10 Unsolved Mysteries of Neuroscience, and they're still unsolved.

I mean, we are in deep mysteries all around us.

And yeah, take consciousness.

I mean, consciousness, somehow you put together all this physical stuff of the brain and you experience qualia, as we talked about, you know, you experience pain and the beauty of a sunset and the taste of cinnamon and, you know, the smell of lemon pie and all these things that we experience, but we have no idea how to build pieces and parts.

We can't build

with transistors, a computer and say, oh yeah, it's enjoying this.

Even though I'm laughing at this YouTube video that I'm watching, the computer presumably is just moving around zeros and ones and not entertained by it.

But somehow our brains, we think we're just made of cells and yet we are feeling stuff.

So there's lots of mystery around us.

To my mind, the best way to tackle these mysteries is the scientific method.

And this is so new for humans.

I mean, this is really just the last few hundred years that we've kind of gotten this right, essentially since the Renaissance, about doing science, which is just, it's nothing but a,

method of saying, okay, we're going to lay out our hypotheses on the table and we're going to do careful experiments.

We're not going to fool ourselves into believing something unless there's evidence that supports it.

And so to my mind, that's the way to tackle it.

Now, the issue is we have a world full of religions.