Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story (say, a man with a beard on a cloud) is true or not true. But with Possibilianism I’m hoping to define a new position - one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities. Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind; it is not interested in committing to any particular story.

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.

Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions of pulses in your brain by a single photon of light, the combined output would be blinding.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.